On Monday, a news crew from NBC and Harry Smith spent the day with the staff of the Sun Journal to do a story about how the newspaper was faring after it was sold to the National Trust for Local News.

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Veteran NBC journalist Harry Smith, left, interviews Sun Journal Executive Editor Judith Meyer on Monday afternoon in the newsroom of the Lewiston newspaper. NBC Nightly News is doing a story on the critical impact of local journalism on communities across the country and the movement toward nonprofit newsrooms. The segment is scheduled to run Thursday on the NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal