Access to news wildly unequal in U.S., study says

Saving journalism and achieving digital democracy might seem like a pretty tall order.

But that is the task of a high-powered commission that says, in a report being released Friday, that the country’s growing hunger for information is “being met unequally, community by community.” The elaborately named Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy raises the specter of two Americas — one wired, the other not so much...