SACRAMENTO – Today, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks announced the establishment of a first-in-the-nation partnership with the State, news publishers, major tech companies and philanthropy, unveiling a pair of multi-year initiatives to provide ongoing financial support to newsrooms ac| a14.asmdc.org
A third of the 1,800 newspapers that were lost over the past decade slowly faded away. Few people in the community noticed anything different at first. There was no abrupt closure that grabbed headlines. Often there was merely an announcement that the paper had been purchased by the owner of a nearby, larger daily.| The Expanding News Desert
Our data show how the shocks of the last few years have accelerated structural shifts towards more digital, mobile, and platform-dominated media environments.| Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism