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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, ...
research |
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 ...
trends |
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 ...
research |
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 ...
trends |
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 ...