To understand the state of local journalism in the United States, you have to start with the bad news. Local newspapers are shutting down, and many local television stations have just a few reporters ...

Find more updated survey data about local news in our “Local News Fact Sheet” here. The way Americans get local news is changing, both in terms of which devices they’re using and who is delivering the ...

Find more updated survey data about local news in our “Local News Fact Sheet” here. Local news topics range from useful daily information like weather and traffic, to civic information about local ...

For more than a century, Americans have been turning to a trusted and reliable source for local news: the radio. Now, the terrestrial broadcasts are facing an existential threat as listeners and ...

“New local newsrooms can be part of that revisiting. As they create their own histories in relationship to the communities they serve, they are well-suited to change the way history has been told.” In ...

Local news has long been an exception to a troubling trend. Even as trust in national news organizations eroded over the past decade and partisan divides over the media widened, local news largely ...

A plan to build back better. Over the past decade, the most useful construct for explaining the crisis that is playing out at the intersection of American media and democracy has been that of the ...

California’s local news landscape — from a thriving weekly in Carmel to a one-reporter newsroom in Merced — shows why ...