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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 ...
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Finding ‘What Works’ Veteran journalists Clegg, Kennedy spotlight local news outlets that chart path forward
Ellen Clegg and Dan Kennedy brought much hands-on experience and perspective to their quest to find, as their new book puts it, “What Works in ...
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Applying Breaks to a Crisis Illinois task force suggests tax credits, incentives, other steps to boost local journalism
The bipartisan Illinois Local Journalism Task Force has announced a series of possible legislative steps, including tax credits, exemptions, grants and other measures, to address a local news crisis ...
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Saving Community Journalism: The Path Ahead
A good newspaper is an anchor in a community. It reminds a community every day of its collective identity, the stake we have in one another, ...
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Churning Toward Disaster Subscriber Engagement Index data shows ominous drop in reader retention
Having determined that reader regularity is the most important factor in getting people to pay for news, Medill Spiegel Research Center Director Edward Malthouse sees ...
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Tipping Point for Public Support? As local reporters vanish and news deserts expand, more leaders from both parties see why America’s founders ‘understood that the press was central to the foundation of a self-governing system’
When Identidad Latina launched in 2001, it was a free biweekly newspaper with a circulation of about 10,000 that covered Hartford and the surrounding areas ...
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How Local News Fares in the Cities More than half of all newspapers lost since 2005 were located in and around major metro areas. Some of the nation’s largest cities have been able to counter the trend, relying on digital-only news outlets to fill the gap
The nation’s cities and its suburbs are home to 287 million people, more than 85% of our population, representing a myriad of cultures, affiliations, concerns ...
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Rural Mirages: Shattered papers and ‘ghosts’ without local news Hundreds of weeklies have been shuttered, and many of the survivors have become ‘ghost papers’ with no staff reporters. But in some small and mid-sized communities, promising new business models are emerging.
The Hutchinson News in central Kansas greeted its subscribers Sept. 5 with a front-page feature about the Hutchinson Senior Center that included a big photo ...