Advance Morning News

It's Monday, October 7, 2024, and this morning the Advance delivers a special issue that kicks off our one-year anniversary celebration.

The FXBG Advance at One - Part I in a Special Series

By Martin Davis
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

This past Thursday evening, the three media groups covering our region gathered at the University of Mary Washington to talk about the challenges of covering the news following the collapse of traditional newspapers nationwide. The FXBG Advance launched — in part — to fill the many gaps in coverage this changing environment has created.

There’s a second challenge created by the shifting news landscape, however, that we believe is as important — indeed, arguably more so — and has received far too little attention. And that’s the reputation of journalism itself.

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