The list of troubles facing local news operations seems to go on forever. The rise in big box stores and ecommerce has made local newspaper retail advertising almost superfluous. The long-term decline ...

For the past 25 years, there have been two primary ways to finance the growth of local news growth: private equity and foundation grant-making. The first, of course, has fed the consolidation of ...

The year 2025 will long be remembered as a devastating milestone for the decline of local journalism. It caps two decades which have seen the news industry ravaged and the idea of truth itself under ...

Earlier this month, Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism released its 2025 “The State of Local News Report.” The writers presented the 2025 numbers within the context of the trends they’ve ...