I’m a national reporter by trade but have been something of a lifelong booster of local and regional news. Unless you trust your state government implicitly in all things and are certain that your ...

“Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital news providers are almost entirely concentrated in metro areas, leaving vast ...

Local news has long been an exception to a troubling trend. Even as trust in national news organizations eroded over the past decade and partisan divides over the media widened, local news largely ...

Hometown Headlines: Research shows that communities with less local news have higher levels of loneliness. Here, café customers read the Midcoast Villager, a weekly newspaper serving Midcoast Maine.

We’re big fans of local and regional news here at Decision Points, which is why we frequently run roundups of stories about politics that may not have made national headlines. Why does local news ...

Local television news is a lifeline for millions of Americans, delivering information that can directly impact daily life, from weather alerts to election coverage to emergency updates. But a new ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In local news deserts in the U.S., residents rely heavily on ...

When WCVB Boston investigative reporter Mike Beaudet aired a two-part investigation into police officers who resigned before facing discipline, about 165,000 viewers watched the station’s top-rated 6 ...

For several years, NPR has promised to support and highlight local news. There are measurable signs of progress. The current question is whether NPR can move fast enough to match more consumers to ...