In Peacock’s “The Paper,” the fictional documentary crew who once chronicled the lives of office staff at Dunder Mifflin, a ...

Among the best: Press Forward and the local news crisis goes mainstream. And the worst: layoffs and attacks on press freedom at the local level.

Local news reporters who focus on politics say the sense of abandonment goes both ways. Morgan Trau, a Columbus-based politics reporter for News 5 Cleveland and Ohio Capital Journal, told CJR that she ...

At a time of financial weakness and flagging public support, government officials are emboldened to bully the press.

William McKenzie: As the national media splinters into partisan echo chambers, smaller local news outlets may be a big part of the solution.

The National Trust for Local News is a nonprofit organization with a mission so important even its harshest critics want it to succeed.

Local journalism is in crisis. “America’s local news has reached its death spiral phase” proclaimed the Columbia Journalism Review in 2018. Two years later, an oft-cited study out of the University of ...

Ideally, investment in local news would come from the federal government, which has more freedom to think long-term than cash-strapped states and municipalities do.

In other words, local dailies were shedding jobs long before a few tech platforms reported ad revenues in the tens of billions of dollars. It’s a trend that points to a deeper problem with the ...

The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report.