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“Despite some colleagues losing everything in Northern California’s destructive Camp Fire, journalists at the Chico Enterprise-Record and the Paradise Post are still putting out their newspapers. 

“‘It’s like the one small contribution we can make to make things normal for the community,’ said Enterprise-Record Editor David Little. ‘You know — the paper still lives. It’s kind of a symbolic, important message to send to the community, that not everything’s lost.”

—Ryan Young and Dakin Andone, “A California town is scorched and empty, but local journalists still deliver,” CNN, Nov. 24, 2018.

• Editorial Note: Ten newspaper staffers lost their homes in the fire. 85 people are confirmed dead, and 249 were still missing Sunday. Recommended: Brian Stelter's interview with editor David Little, embedded in CNN article.

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