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A verdant news desert in Skamania County
On election nights, there should be electricity in a newsroom — and pizza bought by the editor. Yet on the evening of Aug. 5, the ...
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Illinois Newsrooms Receive $4 Million from State
Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law designed to encourage the retention ...
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This tech CEO wants to save local news from the AI onslaught
Local newspapers have an intriguing new ally in their quest to get paid by AI firms hoovering their stories and putting their future at risk. ...
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Stop the Presses? Does Print Have More of a Future in Media Than We Think?
Stephen Crane knows some people think he’s out of his mind. It’s July 2025, and he’s celebrating the second anniversary of his passion project: the ...
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Oregon newspapers close, Dallas paper rejects Alden bid
Cuts to Oregon’s newspaper industry continue this month with the closure of two newspapers east of Portland. Cuts to Oregon’s newspaper industry continue this month ...
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Hitting Reset After Months of Turbulence, the National Trust for Local News Seeks Stability
Two days after Tom Wiley joined the National Trust for Local News in May as its new CEO, the organization announced that it was selling ...
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Local News Summit Chuck Todd Talks Local News with Michigan Press Leaders
Public media cuts, increased collaboration and the importance of local sports headlined a panel at a Local Media Association’s summit in Detroit on Wednesday aimed ...
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Local Public Broadcasting Cuts As Congress Moves to Slash Public Media Funding, Local News Outlets Brace for Impact
Public broadcasters are glued to their screens this week, watching Congress move toward eliminating their funding as requested by President Donald Trump. “I actually have ...
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Journalist Deserts The Number of Local Journalists Has Plummeted 75% Since 2002, Study Says
The United States has seen a staggering 75% decline in local journalists since 2002, according to a report released on Thursday by Rebuild Local News ...
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Meeting Your Audience Where They Are – Literally Local News Outlets Adding Events to Grow Engagement, Revenue
A WWE-style belt decorated with The Pilot logo, donned by a proud Southern Pines electrician, is a sight one could only bear witness to at ...
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Government Agency Buys Newspaper Does The New Owner Represent A Savior, A Conflict Or Both?
Joe Turnham knew it would be cataclysmic if The Tuskegee News closed its doors. He’s seen all the maps showing the collapse of local news. ...
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Tech Giants Win Again An Oregon Bill Requiring Tech Platforms to Compensate Local News Stalls in Senate
An Oregon policy that could have created a model for saving local journalism died in Legislature, amid another round of newsroom layoffs in the state. ...
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Meet the Local Press Champion Former “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd Thinks Local Sports Can Help Save Local News
Few people have as much experience in political media as Chuck Todd, who hosted NBC’s public affairs program “Meet the Press” for nine years and ...
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Shifting Sandboxes Two Legacy Local News Outlets Are Finding New Audiences and Revenue in Nontraditional Places
Melanie Jongsma still smiles when you call her a ‘YouTuber.’ It’s not a title she would’ve imagined being associated with when she took over as ...
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AI Progress Report Are local news organizations benefiting from or getting crushed by artificial intelligence? Maryland Prof. Tom Rosenstiel weighs the impact and potential
In April 2024 the Local News Initiative, in conjunction with the Knight Lab at the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Communications and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung USA, ...
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Trump’s Public Radio Cuts Could Mean Calamity for Local Outlets Smaller stations would face major cutbacks; some wouldn’t survive
As Hurricane Helene ravaged the mountain communities of western North Carolina last fall, Blue Ridge Public Radio remained a beacon in the storm. With power ...
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Paving the CherryRoad Jeremy Gulban dreams of creating a national network of community papers–but first must make 2/3 of his own outlets profitable
With the 2020 purchase of the Cook County News Herald in Northeast Minnesota, Jeremy Gulban launched the fast-growing CherryRoad Media chain of community newspapers. The ...
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The Big Tech News Bills Five states join California in pursuing compensation from Google and Meta for local journalism
Oregon, Washington State, Illinois, Hawaii and New York all have proposed legislation this year to recoup money from Big Tech platforms, mainly Google and Meta, ...
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Students on the Beat A growing movement of news-academic partnerships aims to fill local coverage gaps
The old formula went like this: Journalism undergrads would learn in classes and maybe work on the school paper and then get professional experience via ...
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Tell Us Who Should be a Local News Bright Spot We are collecting nominations for Local News ‘Bright Spots’ that will be featured in our 2025 State of Local News Report
Last year’s State of Local News Report featured a dozen “Bright Spots.” For our second edition of this Local News Initiative project, we highlighted 12 media outlets around ...