In 2020, 10 South Carolina newspapers closed. “Unfortunately, The Union Times could not survive the COVID-19 Virus and the havoc it has wreaked upon the world,” one editor from Union County wrote in his farewell note. The same was true for many publications across the country, where the pandemic exacerbated the attrition already plaguing many community newsrooms. Now, The Post and Courier — South Carolina’s largest newspaper and a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2021 — has launched a project intended to fill in some of the gaps.
