Freshly printed newspapers. Stock photo from Getty Images. It’s hardly news that local coverage in Ohio’s cities and towns isn’t what it once was. A new analysis shows that it’s been devastated in ...

The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced $1.25 million in new funding from Press Forward, a national initiative to reimagine local news. With this grant, the Reporters ...

A group of journalism advocates from the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and the tech platform Muck Rack say they have counted — for the first time — how many journalists remain in the United States. The ...

A Marquette University journalism professor analyzed Marquette Law School Poll data and found that valuing local news is the strongest predictor of local news consumption. Those who believe local news ...

Earlier this month, Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism released its 2025 “The State of Local News Report.” The writers presented the 2025 numbers within the context of the trends they’ve ...

A new report maps where local philanthropy is available to support local journalism, where it’s not and where it’s desperately needed. This should help advance the conversation of what must be done to ...

A version of this story appeared in today’s The Poynter Report newsletter. A new report drawing on a fresh database, released this morning, estimates there has been a 75% decline in the number of ...