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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 ...
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On the Lookout for Local News News business analyst Ken Doctor puts his expertise to work, learns new lessons in Santa Cruz
Veteran journalist Ken Doctor had been analyzing “Newsonomics” for many years when he jumped back into the game to launch a new local digital news ...
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Newsrooms on the Run What happens to journalism when journalists work and meet remotely instead of together?
The classic newspaper newsroom maintains a powerful mystique among journalists and non-journalists alike. You need not have set foot in one to conjure up vivid ...
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The Promise vs. Fear of AI Medill’s Jeremy Gilbert envisions a future where tech leads to better journalism without destroying it
Overseeing the Knight Lab at Northwestern University, Jeremy Gilbert has been exploring the intersection of technology and news media, a topic that has become urgent ...
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Teens Tuning In New Medill survey shows higher-than-expected news engagement among young people
An oft-cited factor in the continued struggles of traditional news outlets has been the sense that young people are disengaged from the news. But the ...
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Sarah Stonbely Named Director of Medill’s State of Local News Project The research director at the Center for Cooperative Media has been studying local news for years
Sarah Stonbely, the research director at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, has been named director of Medill’s State of Local News ...
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Restart the Presses? Plant closures and consolidation prompt earlier deadlines, longer drives, higher costs as papers scramble to stay in print
Every newspaper printing-press closure is another shoe dropping on the local news landscape, and a big one dropped in June. That’s when Gannett announced that ...
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Pursuing Facts in the Time of Lies In Pt. 2 of interview, Marty Baron discusses winning the public's trust, maintaining a pipeline of talented journalists and using AI intelligently
Marty Baron led the Washington Post through a period of dramatic change. Not only did billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buy the newspaper months into ...
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Local News Can’t Be ‘Damsel in Distress’ In Pt. 1 of interview, Marty Baron calls on journalists to stop the nostalgia and doom-and-gloom and to focus on solving problems and making tough choices
As executive editor of the Washington Post, Marty Baron not only guided the newspaper through a transformative ownership change (with Amazon founder Jeff Bezos taking ...
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Investigations, Collaborations and Alligators Exceeding its DNAinfo origins, Block Club Chicago hits 5th anniversary doubling down on the power of neighborhood reporting
Block Club Chicago—a nonprofit newsroom that has been accumulating reporters, readers and accolades—hit one milestone last month and reaches another one Tuesday. Last month, Block ...
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Is Local News Failing To Hold Public Officials Accountable? Medill poll shows reader distrust as they get daily news from TV, social media, not newspapers
Fewer than one third of Americans believe that local news media hold public officials accountable, a finding that calls into question whether local journalism is ...
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How the Medill Local News Poll was conducted
The survey of 1,015 US adults was fielded by NORC’s AmeriSpeak® Omnibus panel from April 27 to May 1, 2023. The local news survey questions ...
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Are news outlets using the wrong metrics to assess sites’ success? Data shows reader habits, not page views or time spent, may be key to subscriber retention
News organizations seeking to measure their websites’ success typically have focused on two metrics: page views and time spent on the site. But data collected ...
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As ‘pink slime’ aims to fill local news vacuum, is anyone reading? A Stanford study finds little consumption of politically driven, faux local-news sites
It sounds like an alarming equation: While local news outlets shutter and news deserts expand nationwide, so-called “pink slime” sites are filling the void with ...