A study from the USA now shows that more disappears with the local newspaper than a piece of culture that the closure can make citizens' lives more expensive and dangerous. In the paper, economists Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Caspar David Peter, who is an Associate Professor in Financial Accounting at RSM, examine how local companies react when the last journalist has left the city. Result: Cases of fraud, financial offences, water and air pollution as well as violations of occupational safety and health law are increasing, the level of criminal energy is increasing.