by jpitney | Jul 13, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Mass Media, Newspapers
Could News Bloom in News Deserts? By Howard Husock American Enterprise Institute Key Points Due to the steady decline of print news in America, many Americans now live in news deserts, where there is no newspaper covering local issues. The absence of information on...
by jpitney | Jun 5, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government
Katie Robertson at NYT: Hundreds of journalists for the country’s largest newspaper chain walked off the job on Monday, accusing the company’s chief executive of decimating its local newsrooms, and demanding a change at the top. The walkout was the biggest labor...
by jpitney | Oct 21, 2022 | Journalism, Journalists
Penelope Muse Abernathy and Tim Franklin, “The State of Local News 2022” (Northwestern Univerity, Medill School, October 4, 2022). More than a fifth of the nation’s citizens live in news deserts—with very limited access to local news—or in communities at...
by jpitney | Dec 1, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Margaret Sullivan at WP: Already in a sharp downward spiral, the local news industry was hit hard by the covid-19 pandemic. The worst blows were taken by newspapers — businesses that, as a group, had never recovered from the digital revolution and the 2008 recession....
by jpitney | Jul 6, 2020 | Journalism, Newspapers
From the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media: This is the fourth report by the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media, documenting and analyzing the loss of local news and its implications for our democracy. In the years immediately following the 2008...
