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Maine Pages National journalists go local as Midcoast Villager combines legacy papers to boost region’s news
Alex Seitz-Wald was a high-profile NBC News national political reporter for 10 years when he made a dramatic shift in his professional life: He became ...
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Deserted By Fact-Checking Meta policy reversal could mean more misinformation for communities lacking local news
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that Facebook is eliminating fact-checking may amount to a double whammy for people living in this country’s ever-expanding news deserts. Having lost ...
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Haunted By Ghost Papers Can Massachusetts hyperlocal startups reconnect communities to the news–and each other?
PLYMOUTH, Mass. – Mark Pothier was wrapping up the young-adult phase of his music career, including a 1983 stint as keyboardist for the then-synthy band ...
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In news deserts, Trump won in a landslide But what does this election-result correlation mean?
Donald Trump won the 2024 election with one of the smallest popular-vote margins in U.S. history, but in news deserts – counties lacking a professional ...
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Sustainable Startups Emerging local news outlets take varied approaches while sharing sense of purpose, need for funding
Bob Gough has worked in local news nearly his entire life, and he knows this: Everybody wants to see their kid or grandkid in the ...
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All the News That’s Missing in Cairo When a paper disappears, what happens to the community, and where do people turn for their news?
During 152 years of publication, the Cairo Citizen covered the Illinois town’s boom years, its long, grinding decline, its near-death from floods, its tumultuous racial ...
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A Big Tech Local News Precedent? New York, Illinois among states waiting to see how California-Google deal shakes out
As California works to finalize a settlement with Google that could allocate about $250 million toward local journalism, legislators in other states are considering whether ...
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Writer Underwriting Writer After the Chicago Tribune didn’t replace retiring architecture critic Blair Kamin, he funded his own successor
Blair Kamin ended his 28-year run as the Chicago Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic with a Jan. 13, 2021 column that concluded: “Imagine Chicago without ...
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Report rings public media alarm bell Ralph Nader group calls for more government funding, less corporate influence to boost local news
Public media funding has become so inadequate in supporting local news reporting that it needs a drastic overhaul, a report released Thursday by the Center for ...
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Medill Launches News Bureau To Cover Illinois Government Students to produce content to be distributed to about 700 local news outlets
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications announced Monday the creation of the Medill Illinois News Bureau, which will provide local news outlets ...
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Do Homepages Still Matter? With social and search traffic down, news outlets aim to get readers back on their platforms
The homepage was the entry point, the digital equivalent of the front page, before social media and search engines became the dominant means for readers ...
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Can Local Journalism Find Fatigue Cure? New Medill survey shows U.S. adults already ‘tired’ of election, avoiding news
The 2024 presidential election remains months away, yet a new Medill survey shows that as of May almost half of surveyed adults already were sick ...
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After the Raid: Lawsuits, Boosted Circulation, Fallout from the Death of a 98-Year-Old Mother Kansas’s Marion County Record drew national support following a police action with a fatal aftermath, but the small weekly still needs journalists willing to work there
The Marion County Record in Marion, Kan., a city of fewer than 2,000 people, hit the national spotlight last August when the town’s police raided ...
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Illinois Passes $25 Million in Tax Credits To Boost Local Journalism Legislation package offers ‘pretty significant solutions to a pretty wide variety of challenges’
The Illinois legislature has approved measures that provide $25 million in tax credits over the next five years for local news organizations to hire and ...
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The Medill survey: How the Chicago area gets its news An examination of the public’s interest in and reliance on local news, as well as consumption habits
This text was adapted from the introduction of our report on how Chicago-area residents consume local news. Download a full PDF version of the report. The ...
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News in Chicago: A brief history How Chicago has made journalism history — and isn’t done yet
Chicago has always been a great news town. Its innovative journalism brought us the first live radio broadcast of a trial in U.S. history. It ...
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A ‘News Pioneer’ Looks Back and Ahead Penny Abernathy tells why the study of local news became her mission, why she chose the term ‘news deserts’ over ‘news vacuums,’ and what signs of hope she sees amid an ailing industry
If Penny Abernathy’s sole accomplishment had been identifying and raising awareness of “news deserts” across the country, her legacy in the local news world would ...
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Impact of AI on Local News Models AI is disrupting the local news industry: Will it unlock growth or be an existential threat?
This text was adapted from the introduction of our report on the impact of AI on local news models. Download a full PDF version of ...
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Tell Us What’s Working in Local News The 2024 State of Local News Report seeks new ‘Bright Spots’
Last year’s State of Local News Report featured a new segment on “Bright Spots.” It highlighted 17 media outlets across the country that are building sustainable ...
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‘The Most Ambitious Package of Local Journalism Policy’ New Illinois bills propose incentives to fund news organizations, repopulate newsrooms
The ailing local news industry in Illinois would receive compensation from Big Tech companies and benefit from state tax incentives and a new journalism scholarship ...