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National journalists go local as Midcoast Villager combines legacy papers to boost region’s news. "We did it to save our local communities’ newspapers." via Medill Local News Initiative localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/03/…

Canada provides an estimated 80 percent of the paper used by US newspapers, so on-again, off-again tariffs are causing chaos and could have a severe impact on an already struggling industry, Columbia Journalism Review reports. cjr.org/analysis/tarif…

"The decision to measure success by impact — not clicks, pageviews, ad sales, subscriptions or any other metric — is ProPublica's other major contribution to nonprofit journalism." Angela Fu reports for Poynter. poynter.org/business-work/…

.The Philadelphia Inquirer launched its community news & engagement desk almost 3 years ago "to better serve traditionally underserved communities," Rick Edmonds of Poynter writes. "It operated independently of the newsroom, with its own staff of 6." Now it's gone. poynter.org/commentary/ana…

"The Mercury News would become widely regarded as the first newspaper to put its entire content online, initially for free. The decision established a lasting expectation that online news should be free....It is a crisis without end," Poynter reports. poynter.org/business-work/…

Do you know of a local news outlet building an innovative, sustainable business model while providing much-needed community coverage? The Northwestern Medill is now accepting nominations for Bright Spots to include in its 2025 State of Local News report. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/04/…

Local papers used to give a lift to college students, but now it's the other way around, as undergraduate reporters fill news gaps in communities lacking robust coverage. Here's our in-depth look at the expanding movement of news-academic partnerships. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/04/…

One school highlighted here by Medill Local News Initiative: Denison University in Granville for its Reporting Project, which has 12 students (most of them paid) covering Licking County. localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/04/…

My story for the Medill Local News Initiative about student reporters filling local news gaps.

The nonprofit digital Houston Landing launched in June 2023 "with more than $20 million in funding and aimed to provide accountability reporting and storytelling that reflected Houston’s diversity." It announced Tuesday it's shutting down in May. Poynter poynter.org/business-work/…

As TikTok follows X and Meta into a "community notes"-style form of fact-checking, Poynter's Ren LaForme talks with Alex Mahadevan about what could go right or wrong. poynter.org/commentary/202…

Oregon, Washington State, Illinois, Hawaii and New York all have proposed legislation this year to recoup money from Big Tech platforms, mainly Google and Meta, for revenue gained from publishing local news content. Hannah Carroll's report for LNI... localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/05/…

Oregon, Washington State, Illinois, Hawaii and New York all have proposed legislation this year to recoup money from Big Tech platforms, mainly Google and Meta, for revenue gained from publishing local news content. via Medill Local News Initiative localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/05/…

The Northwestern Medill Local News Initiative has debuted a new interactive tool that highlights 249 counties at high risk for losing their local news. Click here to explore the Local News Barometer and Watch List: localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state…

The new Northwestern Medill LNI Local News Ecosystem Barometer uses a predictive model to track 249 U.S. counties on the Watchlist at risk of becoming news deserts. Explore here: localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/projects/state…

In this especially candid, insightful conversation, CherryRoad Media CEO Jeremy Gulban details the challenges facing his fast-growing newspaper chain and the greater local news industry. Northwestern Medill localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/05/…

Visa pause could stop flow of international journalism students to U.S. Angela Fu of Poynter reports. poynter.org/educators-stud…

Public radio stations in rural areas and smaller towns face the greatest threat from Trump’s plan to eliminate federal funding: “This is not a situation that we can fundraise our way out of.” localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2025/06/…