When reputable local news outlets close, fewer people vote and get involved in local politics, and misinformation, corruption and polarization increase.
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The new sitcom ‘The Paper’ highlights the challenges of local journalism at a moment when real-world newsrooms are vanishing across North America.
The crisis facing local journalism is playing out the world over. A new report charts what other countries are doing in response and what Australia can learn.
As local news outlets continue to close across the country, people’s news sources keep evolving.
Under the News Media Assistance Program, media outlets are receiving a funding boost. Some money will flow to community broadcasting - but not enough.
Once a key source of information and a training ground for young journalists, community newspapers are now an endangered species. It’s bad news for the news industry – but even worse for the public.
Australia needs to prioritise finding new funding to support journalism, particularly in remote and regional areas.
The number of nonprofit news outlets is holding steady as they go out of business just as fast as they are founded.
A Manchester-based local news company is turning heads and attracting a new readership.
The local news crisis is more than a problem of shuttered newsrooms and laid-off journalists. It’s a democracy crisis. And public radio can help fix it. But it needs more money and staff to do that.
Partnerships between universities and local media outlets are key ways to sustain local news where coverage is diminishing.
Australia’s regional news outlets are dying a not-so-slow death, and COVID-19 has accelerated their decline.
Top contributors
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Professional associate, University of Canberra
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Assistant Professor of Broadcast and Digital Journalism, Endicott College
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Sessional tutor, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Journalism, Liverpool John Moores University
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Associate Professor of Mass Communication, Georgia College and State University
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Research fellow, University of Technology Sydney
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C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy, University of Pennsylvania
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Director, State of Local News Project, Northwestern University
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Sessional lecturer in journalism, Swinburne University of Technology
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Bradlee Professor of Government and the Press, Harvard Kennedy School
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Auckland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Media Studies, Griffith University
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Manager, Colorado College Journalism Institute, Colorado College
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Honorary Fellow, Deakin University
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Professor (Communication), Deakin University