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An emerging model of locally rooted nonprofit news outlets is helping meet Americans’ desire for information that’s reliable and relevant to their daily lives and communities.
One more reason rebuilding local news is vital. Academic re...
The hemorrhage of local journalists nationwide continues, according to the Local Journalist Index 2026, a project of Rebuilding Local News and Muck Rack.
After being made redundant from his job at Kent Online, Rhys Griffiths launched a Substack local newsletter to appeal to ex-Londoners settling down on the Kentish coast
Research suggests that whether it's an obituary, a puff piece, or news of a community event, local news makes us feel less alone.
Journalists are starting to advocate for solutions to the challenges facing local news. It can be a bit uncomfortable.
Independent Journalism + Everlaw Journalism often tells stories on a human scale. A reporter talks to a few people about a specific...
Oksana Shtohryn was attracted to the two-year journalism program at Vancouver's Langara College because it was hands on, quicker to complete than a four-year course.
The credentialing of influencers behind a pro-Luigi Mangione account has fueled debate over who qualifies as “press” in New York City, and whether traditional journalistic standard...
The strange saga of New Zealand’s most controversial local news startup. In April, RNZ confirmed something that Central Otago local news startup Crux Media had been reporting for...
Talented exponents have stopped looking to national broadcasters for the help to amplify stories that quite simply isn’t going to come. They are doing it themselves.
If we want to get out the good news about what we’re doing, local newspapers are a good place to start.
By Marty SchladenStates Newsroom When local newspapers shut their doors and no reporters are there to watch school boards, city councils and county commissioners, taxes go up, acco...
Partnering with nonprofits and public agencies to reach underserved communities has become El Tímpano’s major revenue stream. Here’s how your newsroom can get started, what to watc...
If the kind of journalism practiced at 60 Minutes — and plenty of lesser-known outlets in cities and towns across America — dies or becomes hopelessly flaccid, America will be weak...
This report is dumb but that's not why we're sharing it . . .We want locals to check the plan of this local media organization that many hoped would replace The Kansas City Star. S...
News deserts. At first blush, it seems like strange term in an era in which most people are regularly inundated on their devices with boatloads of emails and other messages about...
MediaRoom: The Post gets the drop on NZME's right-wing investor in declaring its journa...
Local news on Kentucky that tackled data centers, government surveillance and civic knowledge won three prestigious awards.
An important perspective from a local progressive writer offers the conservative lawman some well-deserved and begrudging respect . . . Here's the word: Read more at tonyskansascit...
The organisation set up to promote and protect journalism in Scotland has asked Holyrood’s new minister with responsibility for the media to respond to a Westminster initiative to...
Is Lane County a news desert? News sources have been hit hard locally and across the country but research from the University of Oregon’s Agora … Continue reading →
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