Decline in local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help
WEBNov 16, 2023 · The decline of local news in the United States is speeding up despite attention paid to the issue, to the point where the nation has lost one-third of its newspapers and two-thirds of its newspaper journalists since 2005.
Decline in local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to …
WEBStudies have shown that the decline in local news has increased political polarization, led to more political corruption, and let outlets that spread misinformation fill the void.
Decline in Local News Outlets Is Accelerating Despite Efforts to …
WEBNov 16, 2023 · Studies have shown that the decline in local news has increased political polarization, led to more political corruption and let outlets that spread misinformation fill the void.
Americans’ Changing Relationship With Local News
WEBMay 7, 2024 · The share of U.S. adults who say they are paying close attention to local news has dropped since our last major survey of attitudes toward local news in 2018, mirroring declining attention to national news. Americans still see value in local news and local journalists.
Local News Is Dying: What's Killing It? : 1A - NPR
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Major outlets, including public radio stations, continue to lay-off journalists. Why? Some of it can be chalked up to the economic impacts of the pandemic. Some of it is the fault of private...
The connections between decline of local news and growing
WEBAug 30, 2023 · Judy Woodruff recently examined how the loss of thousands of local newspapers across the country is depriving communities of some of the glue that holds them together and fueling division. She...
As newspapers close, struggling communities are hit hardest by …
WEBJun 29, 2022 · The United States continues to lose newspapers at a rate of two per week, further dividing the nation into wealthier, faster growing communities with access to local news, and struggling areas without.
More than half of U.S. counties have no access or very limited …
WEBNov 16, 2023 · Of the 3,143 counties in the U.S., more than half, or 1,766, have either no local news source or only one remaining outlet, typically a weekly newspaper. The loss of local newspapers ticked higher in 2023 to an average of 2.5 …
Opinion | Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers.
WEBJun 12, 2021 · A 2018 Duke University study of 16,000 local news outlets (including broadcasters) in 100 communities deemed only about 17 percent of articles as truly local (i.e., they took place in or...
Decline in local news outlets is accelerating despite efforts to help
WEBNov 16, 2023 · Studies have shown that the decline in local news has increased political polarization, led to more political corruption, and let outlets that spread misinformation fill the void.
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