Penny Abernathy

May 17, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Penny Abernathy |Tim Franklin

Posted Friday, May 17, 2024 10:58 am I’ve been real careful to say I define a news desert as a community — either rural, urban or suburban — with very limited access to the kind of comprehensive, incredible news that feeds democracy and nurtures community.” If Penny Abernathy’s sole accomplishment had been identifying and raising awareness of “news deserts” across the country, her legacy in the local news world would have been secure. But she has done much more than that in a career that has...