When newspapers close, communities lose a thread that ties them together with information about government, elections, education, crime and community events.

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John Malone helped create the modern media industry over the last half century. In a new memoir, “Born to Be Wired,” he looks back on what he has wrought. John Malone, a captain of the media industry ...