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 ...

Nine Midwestern news organizations completed the Medill-LMA Midwest Advanced Fundraising Lab, strengthening their philanthropic fundraising approaches to support sustainable local journalism. Running ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clare Kirwan is a junior in the Medill School of Journalism studying journalism, art history, and political science at Northwestern University. Originally from Harrisonburg, Virginia, Clare is ...

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 ...

Chicago has always been a great news town. Its innovative journalism brought us the first live radio broadcast of a trial in U.S. history. It brought us the first televised presidential debate. It ...

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 ...

The homepage was the entry point, the digital equivalent of the front page, before social media and search engines became the dominant means for readers to find content. But now that X/Twitter, ...