Better internet access doesn’t just make life easier; it’s changing how local stories travel. Across towns and counties, small newsrooms that once relied on print delivery or community bulletin boards ...

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 ...

As proposals to help save local journalism gathered dust in Congress and mostly fizzled in state legislatures over the last year, 136 more newspapers closed, according to a new report. More than half ...

Although advertising revenue largely sustained the news media in the 20th century, it’s been harder to come by in the digital age. News media outlets just aren’t as important these days for ...

In the immediate aftermath of Congress' final vote last week to take back money from the public media system, local stations across the country launched emergency drives asking for help. To a large ...

A crop of online outlets which look just like French local media outlets are fooling internet users by sharing articles with alarming headlines, spinning genuine news reports with the help of AI, as ...