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The Crisis in Local News An initiative of An initiative of 1 Local coverage has been decimated. Even before COVID-19, the crisis Residents no longer get the information in journalism had become a they need to understand the critical issues
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Local coverage has been decimated. Residents no longer get the information they need to understand the critical issues facing their community, to make good decisions for their family, and hold elected
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Denver Post staff in 2013 when they won the Pulitzer prize for coverage of the Aurora high school shooting. The black silhouettes are reporters who no longer work there.
In 2004, 1 in 8 reporters were in just NYC, DC or LA. In 2017, it was 1 in 5.
Newspapers have closed in the last 10 years counties in the US have no newspaper at all
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From a peak of nearly 458,000 newspaper reporters in the early 1990s, the number has dropped to about 180,000.
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Voxeu
eMarketer Google and Facebook share of digital ads
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for for-profit newspapers
nonprofit revenue – are cancelled
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instead of advertising
events
people and advertisers
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nonprofits like FlintBeat, MLK50 and Chalkbeat
push local journalism
through civicly important journalism
AJP and others)
nonprofits, national-local models
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boots on the ground, local match, public service)
commercial and nonprofit media
newspapers, with the reporting heft of watchdog nonprofits
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National service program that places journalists into local newsrooms
newsroom raise the rest
225 reporters in 162 newsrooms in the field in June. Goal: 1,000 reporters on the ground in 2024
Samantha Max, Report for America Corps Member in Macon, GA
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