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    When rural newspapers fall prey to predatory ownership, local content goes fast

    This is one of a series of articles and videos on the June 2017 conference “Is no local news bad news? Local journalism and its future” hosted by the Ryerson Journalism Research Centre. Watch the full conference panel below. To read more about the conference and local news, visit:  localnews.journalism.ryerson.ca. By GREGORY FURGALA Staff reporter Small market newspapers are being stripped of local content by “predatory” chain ownership groups, a new study suggests. John Miller, a professor emeritus at the Ryerson School of Journalism, compared local content in the Northumberland Today, the daily newspaper published in Cobourg, Ont., with local…