The consolidation in local TV news that’s remaking news ecosystems across the country is on stark display in Indianapolis.

For Burnett and WKMS, the public radio station she manages in southwestern Kentucky, the specter of defunding was an ominous ...

More than 60% of Americans have at least some confidence that news organizations will provide accurate information about the midterm election results, but only 32% have high levels of confidence, ...

A plurality of Americans think that most journalists try to manipulate the news for political or commercial purposes, according to a poll conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago in ...

An introduction to the 2026 State of Local News Report by Tim Franklin, Professor and John M. Mutz Chair in Local News In this report last year, I described a “steady, unrelenting decline” of local ...

A former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jacob was the first website editor for the Medill Local News Initiative. He is the co-author of eight books on ...

Mike Klingensmith was recruited home to Minneapolis in 2010 to lead the Star Tribune shortly after its investment-fund lenders bought it out of bankruptcy protection. He had spent the previous 32 ...

This text was adapted from the introduction of our report on how Chicago-area residents consume local news. Download a full PDF version of the report. The financial pressures on journalism are plain ...

Veteran journalist Ken Doctor had been analyzing “Newsonomics” for many years when he jumped back into the game to launch a new local digital news outlet, Lookout Santa Cruz, which debuted in 2020.

Since 2005, more than 3,200 print newspapers have vanished. Newspapers continue to disappear at a rate of more than two per week; in the past year alone, 130 newspapers have shut their doors. In ...