The loss of local newspapers and reporters takes away our understanding of what we can expect from life. Instead, we are to rely on vagaries and rumors spread via the internet, some of it good ...

By DEAN RIDINGSOf America’s Newspapers The decision by The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to skip endorsing a ...

Pressured by the evolution of broadcast and digital media—and by the loss of advertising-based funding models—newspapers went into decline. Local ownership, and the diversity of opinions ...

and there often isn’t another media source in the area to compensate for the newspaper’s loss. Legislation to support local newspapers is critical to maintaining these trusted, vital media ...

As similar areas without a newspaper closure did not see those effects, they theorise that the loss of scrutiny on local government led to more mismanagement of public funds. And epidemiologists ...

Local crises, like the desperately needed upgrade of water and sewer systems, are going unreported. And there is no one to keep disinformation in check, like when the newspaper published a series ...

The recent decision by The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to skip endorsing a presidential candidate has put the issue ...

Medill found the number of local newspapers is down to just under 5,600 ... the detrimental effects we see in news deserts — the loss of civic engagement, the loss of voter participation.” ...

The Montecito Journal is required reading every week for many of the A-list celebrities who live in this upmarket beach town ...

The Tampa Bay Times told its readers this week that it was concentrating its editorial endorsements on local ... Out West, a ...

He was a local historian, describing how farmers sold angora fiber to be spun into mohair at a mercantile near the main drag. He was an amateur lepidopterist, gently waving away swarms of monarch ...

The recent decision by The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to skip endorsing a presidential candidate has put the issue ...