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The Crisis in Local News


Local news is in crisis, but there is hope - The Fulcrum

Local newsrooms are dying at an alarming rate, but projects like Report for America and Press Forward are working to sustain media ...

New solutions for the local journalism crisis - Eidosmedia.com

New efforts aim to revitalize local news through financial support, focusing on underserved areas and addressing historical inequalities.

News Crisis: Can Local Public Radio Help Fill the News Gap ...

Our study sought to answer is whether local public radio stations can substantially help meet the deficit in communities' information needs resulting from the ...

The Nationwide Local News Crisis - Agora Journalism Center

Despite its importance to community life, local journalism is in crisis. In the past 15 years, over one-fourth of American newspapers went out ...

Extra, extra: How to solve the local news crisis | National Press Club

Extra, extra: How to solve the local news crisis · Sarabeth Berman, CEO of the American Journalism Project · Margaret Sullivan, author of ...

Local News Is Dying, and Americans Have No Idea - The Atlantic

Local news is in the midst of a long financial crisis, as newsrooms are hit with layoffs, page counts shrink, and entire papers go belly-up.

Local journalism in crisis amid growing polarisation in US - Focus

The decline of local journalism in the United States is becoming a more pressing issue by the day. Since 2005, the country has lost more ...

Solutions to America's Local Journalism Crisis - Shorenstein Center

The shuttering of local newspapers is contributing to a growing crisis in trusted local news and information, and an emerging challenge for America's democracy.

The Crisis in Local News - YouTube

Local news, in crisis before the pandemic, is now facing a cataclysm. Advertising has plummeted. Print has no market.

Crisis in Local News and Media - The Aspen Institute

Local news, in crisis before the pandemic, is now facing a cataclysm. Ad revenue has been decimated and consolidation has driven record job cuts.

425. The crisis in local journalism is real

The situation as it pertains to local news media is so dire, after some initial hesitation and the acknowledgment of an “existential crisis,” Report for America ...

Local News Program Strategy - MacArthur Foundation

Among the many challenges facing American democracy, from low voter turnout and declining civic engagement to increasing partisanship and disagreement on ...

Does Local News Reduce Polarization? | Carnegie Reporter ...

Political scientist and Andrew Carnegie Fellow Joshua P. Darr has been studying what the loss of local news means for American communities.

Considering Supporting Local News as a 'Public Good'? Here's the ...

More foundations and high-net worth individuals are funding local news. Learn how to join them. BY MARK GLASER Save the whales. No child left behind.

Why Local News Matters, and What We Can Do to Save It

Penny Muse Abernathy, Knight Chair in Journalism and Digital Media Economics at the University of North Carolina and a noted expert on the ...

A crisis for democracy: Collapse of local news outlets accelerates ...

At its current pace, the country will hit 3,000 newspapers closed in two decades sometime next year, with just under 6,000 remaining, the report ...

Collapse of local media leaves us all in the dark - The Guardian

UK's dwindling oversight of local government stems from hollowing out of local news – which may have to find its own fix.

Local journalism in crisis amid growing polarisation in US - Facebook

Since 2005, the country has lost more than 2,500 newspapers and 43,000 journalists. More than 200 counties in the US are considered "news ...

Free Press roundup: Powerful reports on local journalism crisis

Struggling news publishers in the US are fairly compensated by dominant tech platforms. Here are some of the powerful stories over the last week.

The Crisis in Local News - The Aspen Institute

The Crisis in Local News. 1. Page 2. An initiative of. Even before COVID-19, the crisis in journalism had become a crisis for our democracy. Local coverage has ...