Stop the Presses? Does Print Have More of a Future in Media Than We Think? | Local News Initiative
Stephen Crane knows some people think he’s out of his mind.| Local News Initiative
Stephen Crane knows some people think he’s out of his mind.| Local News Initiative
When Julia Wallace heard the news, she had a flashback to 20 years ago.| Local News Initiative
SPRINGFIELD – A newspaper publisher in central and southern Illinois has sold eight of its Illinois papers to a Kentucky-based company, testing a new state law designed to keep newspaper ownership local.| Local News Initiative
When Montana voters sent Jon Tester to the United States Senate for the first time in 2006, the Democratic Party also won Senate elections in North Dakota, Nebraska, Missouri, Ohio and West Virginia. At the time, the party’s senators also included members from Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana and South Dakota. Republicans, meanwhile, represented states including Colorado, Maine, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia.| Local News Initiative
The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications announced the creation of a shared services hub, which will provide expertise and infrastructure support to news outlets in the Chicago region.| Local News Initiative
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.| Local News Initiative
It’s not as hilarious as “The Office” but the spinoff series “The Paper” often hits its mark, painfully.| Local News Initiative
Further evidence that we’re living in a bizarro world, where wrong is right and down is up, came in a recent Pew Research Center survey.| Local News Initiative
On election nights, there should be electricity in a newsroom — and pizza bought by the editor.| Local News Initiative
The loss of local news is linked with increased government secrecy, according to a new study conducted by the Brechner Center for the Advancement of the First Amendment at the University of Florida.| Local News Initiative
Two days after Tom Wiley joined the National Trust for Local News in May as its new CEO, the organization announced that it was selling 21 of its Colorado newspapers to a for-profit Arizona-based company.| Local News Initiative
Forty Illinois local news entities operating 120 outlets are receiving $4 million in state tax credits under a new law designed to encourage the retention and hiring of journalists, according to documents released this week.| Local News Initiative
The latest insights and trends on the local news landscape across the country. Through data and graphics, explore the state of local news outlets and learn about news deserts, network sites and pathways to sustainability.| Local News Initiative
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, for revenue gained from publishing local news content.| Local News Initiative
A WWE-style belt decorated with The Pilot logo, donned by a proud Southern Pines electrician, is a sight one could only bear witness to at the ‘Best of the Pines’ awards event.| Local News Initiative
We track closures and mergers of local news outlets, as well as the emergence of new local news providers, across newspapers, digital, ethnic media, and public broadcasting. We identify local news deserts and communities in danger of becoming news deserts. We are a forum for thought leadership and the latest research on changes to the journalism landscape and practice.| Local News Initiative
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 source of local news – it was an avalanche. Trump won 91% percent of these counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.| Local News Initiative
Executive Summary Introduction Newspapers Digital Public Broadcasting Ethnic Media The Possibilities for Reviving Local News Executive Summary There was both good news and bad news for local journalism this past year. The good news raised the possibility that a range of proposals and programs could begin to arrest the steep loss of local news over the past two decades and, perhaps, revive journalism in some places that have lost their news. The headlines on the bad news resoundingly conveyed ...| Local News Initiative
