The Civic Importance of Local News Ecosystems

Local news outlets have often overlooked important public issues in favor of human interest, scandal, and salacious stories.

Local News Ecosystems 2.0: Bringing Civic Engagement and ...

Newsrooms servicing an ecosystem: Previous ecosystem assessments have noted that backbone institutions serve an important role for providing key ...

Why Study Local News Ecosystems? - Democracy Fund

Across the country, there's a movement of people working to build stronger local news for local communities by understanding entire local ecosystems.

Civic Journalism: New and Improved Local News

Losing a community's main source of news can lead to lower voter turnouts, fewer people running for office, more corruption, and less civic ...

Strengthening Local News Ecosystems: 2024 Report - The Pivot Fund

Engaging the community and fostering trust is another key recommendation from the report. “Communities are more likely to support local news ...

Local news has long provided a vital civic bond. Can we afford to let ...

Patterson, the Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, says because local news organizations gave citizens the information necessary to make important ...

Mapping local news ecosystems, Phase 1

On the other hand, identifying a local news ecosystem using an organic boundary may focus on assemblages arising through circulation, use, or relevance of local ...

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 ...

Local Media Access and Consumption Can Support Youth Civic ...

Moreover, we find that local news outlets can be a key part of a community's media ecosystem alongside other institutions like libraries and ...

Research links local news, civic health of communities - Phys.org

"The evidence is increasingly clear that the civic health of communities is inextricably linked to the future of local news. Our analysis ...

Democracy Fund: A Guide to Assessing Your Local News Ecosystem

Since 2004, more than 1,300 American communities have lost local newspaper coverage. This loss of local news has lead to lower civic participation, lower ...

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

Making the connection between the importance of democracy, informed communities and the health of local journalism is crucial. Craig Newmark, the founder of ...

Gallup-Knight study shows connection between local news and civic ...

Nearly 85% of Americans say the news media is “critical” or “very important” for providing accurate information and holding the powerful to account. And ...

Ecosystems Toolkit - Local News Lab -

Our news and information ecosystems are complex and evolving as media and technology change while at the same time local newspapers consolidate and disappear.

Local news is critical infrastructure. It's time we treat it that way.

In that context, local journalism serves a critical role alongside more traditional infrastructure in the maintenance of our social fabric by ...

Catalyzing civic media movement is our way out of the 'local news ...

They're the ones meeting community information needs right now by enhancing local coordination, problem-solving, systems of public ...

The Roadmap for Local News

Local news is a public good essential to a healthy, inclusive, and multiracial democracy. Yet the last two decades have seen a dramatic loss ...

Why local news media is important to democracy

Their coverage exposes the public to information about issues concerning their neighborhoods, such as healthcare, education, public safety, jobs ...

Americans' Changing Relationship With Local News

Reporting news accurately (71%) · Covering the most important stories (68%) · Being transparent (63%) · Keeping an eye on local political leaders ( ...

Our Plan - Rebuild Local News

The decline of local reporting means residents are less well informed about schools, government effectiveness, economic development, criminal justice, health ...