A new study published in the Columbia Journalism Review offers a comprehensive look at small-market newspapers in the digital age, along with a side project survey of more than 400 small-market journalists. Small-market newspapers, which have a circulation below 50,000, represent a large part of the nation’s news mix, but are often overlooked in both research and in the popular narrative about newspapers. The authors, Christopher Ali of UVA and Damian Radcliffe, sought to correct this oversight by researching how small-market newspapers are responding to the encroaching Digital Age, and how th...