February 22, 2021
Dozens of news organizations survive on more than sheer determination to provide neighborhood news. Photo taken from Center for Journalism & Liberty. This report was written by Tom Davidson for The Center for Journalism & Liberty, originally published Jan. 5, 2021, and is republished here with permission. When a veteran Maryland legislator was sentenced to prison […]
February 3, 2021
By SevenMaps / Shutterstock From Eden Prairie, Minnesota, here’s the happiest journalism news of the new year: Eden Prairie is saving its local news, one year after a hedge fund bought the local newspaper and promptly closed it. Some 65,000 people live in this farm town turned suburb, on the rolling bluffs where the prairie […]
December 4, 2020
During a time where journalism, on the whole, has declined, visual journalism has been hit the hardest. Over the last 10 years, the number of visual journalists has declined by 52%, more than any other newsroom staff members. Without visual journalism, there’s no representation of the communities local newsrooms cover. It’s harder to make an […]
July 28, 2020
To add to the many struggles of life during a pandemic, the collapse, or absence, of local news means that too many communities do not have access to the information they need to combat COVID-19. According to the Brookings Institution, more than half of U.S. counties with COVID cases — 57 percent — had no daily newspaper as of […]
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