I think the best choice for increased competition is to look for alternative sources of local news and who can start them up. That means starting up digital enterprises that can operate very inexpensively and that can team with community organizations, with educational institutions and others, to create another local news source that becomes an alternative..
In some cases, particularly where you have locally owned, non-daily newspapers, you have some that would very much like to better serve the community there and better address the local news. There are things that can be done to support them, and to actually provide, as some countries do now, tax credits for hiring new local journalists and provide them training and other things on how to move into digital, social, and mobile media, which are increasingly important, even at the local level.