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On Media: Pandemic poses ‘extinction-level’ threat to local journalism
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On Media: Pandemic poses ‘extinction-level’ threat to local journalism

The pandemic looks like it will be another defining moment for local journalism not only in Pittsburgh but across the U.S., according to a newly updated report from the University of North Carolina. It shows that losses that were happening before the crisis have only accelerated...

On Media: Pandemic poses ‘extinction-level’ threat to local journalism

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Give local journalism a fighting chance by creating a demand for it
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Give local journalism a fighting chance by creating a demand for it

Local newspaper reporters who doggedly attend school board, planning commission and city council meetings and who scan police blotters and pore over budgets and contracts are essential cogs in our communities.

Give local journalism a fighting chance by creating a demand for it

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Why we need to save the news in Nevada
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Why we need to save the news in Nevada

Local news allows readers to cut away from national headlines, navigate through some of the biases that plague cable news, and get to the true issues that are affecting their communities. It’s easy to imagine a story like this slipping through the cracks. Only the efforts of Anjeanette Damon and her colleagues at Reno Gazette Journal brought it to the attention of local readers.

Why we need to save the news in Nevada

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Media expert: Loss of local news outlets leaves public less informed and damages democracy
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Media expert: Loss of local news outlets leaves public less informed and damages democracy

The very framework of democracy in America is being weakened by the rapid, widespread demise of local news organizations, particularly small newspapers that once served as trusted providers of information and pillars of their communities, according to Margaret Sullivan, who spoke virtually to a South Dakota audience on Tuesday, June 30.

Media expert: Loss of local news outlets leaves public less informed and damages democracy

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The fates of two leading newspaper publishers are up in the air
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The fates of two leading newspaper publishers are up in the air

As Ken Doctor put it on Monday, "this is the mid-year witching hour for the U.S. daily press," with numerous possible outcomes. McClatchy's biggest investor Chatham might end up with the newspaper chain. Or Gannett. Or a group of investors from the "growing civic-good journalism world" who could set up "the country's first major nonprofit newspaper chain."

The fates of two leading newspaper publishers are up in the air