Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #newsdesert, aggregated by home.social.
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Chicago Reader looks to need donations/engagement. I had been getting my budget ready to start donating (part of my relocation plans TBH) and definitely thought it has always been a great resource!! They are a not for profit and have great articles.
https://chicagoreader.com/reader/press-releases/chicago-reader-announces-layoffs/
B Square Bulletin shuts down after five years
This is a real loss for the Bloomington community. The B Square has been the best and often only source of local government news since its beginning. We will miss your great reporting @chronicallydave !
https://bsquarebulletin.com/2024/12/20/five-years-one-final-b-square-bulletin-thank-you/
“Trump won 91% percent of [news desert] counties over his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, according to an analysis of voting data by Medill Journalism School’s State of Local News project.”
https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/posts/2024/12/05/trump-wins-news-deserts-in-landslide/
#Journalism #NewsDesert
News deserts are growing and local media throughout Europe face a “precarious situation,” according to a new study
#NewsDesert
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/news-deserts-local-media-struggling-to-survive/
Just published: The challenge educators face in teaching #NewsDesert issues to students, with @TeriFinneman
and @meg_heckman
in Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. @AEJMC_CTM
https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KY9USBKPDWFWFG9P5XET/full
New Medill School of Journalism studies defines over 200 U.S. counties as news deserts with no reliable sources for local news and another 228 counties as high-risk for losing their only news source in the next few years. #journalism #newsdesert https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/more-than-half-of-us-counties-have-no-access-or-very-limited-access-to-local-news,246746
Last of the Watchdogs https://www.voanews.com/a/press-freedom-us-news-deserts-media-trust/7264831.html
The raid itself became emblematic of the crisis facing local media in the United States as the industry faces cuts and attempts to curtail its role as a public watchdog.
In my hometown of #LongmeadowMA, an extremely rightwing candidate for School Committee has scrubbed much of his (hateful) online presence just in time for the June 13 town election. His name is Kency Gilet. Longmeadow, like many towns, has very little local journalism, so people aren't aware of his odious views.
Apologies for linking to Twitter, but:
https://twitter.com/rekha6/status/1659199665978621952
#localpolitics #rightwingextremism #LongmeadowMA #newsdesert #SchoolCommittee #localnews #democracy
"With no real grasp of our viewing area or the flavor of our local news, Sinclair pushed its agenda on us."
Longtime #KTVL anchor Trish Glose reflects on the move to kill off the station's local #news operations. #newsdesert
“They were planning to keep the entire community, all of Southern Oregon in the dark, all of our viewers in the dark, until our last day, until our last broadcast,” Taylar Ansures, digital content producer at #KTVL said. #media #newsdesert
https://www.ijpr.org/business-and-labor/2023-04-27/rogue-valley-sinclair-broadcasting-station-ktvl-announces-newsroom-layoffs
The fate of local news: How America's largest #newspaper company is creating #news deserts, from National Public Radio #media #legacymedia #Gannett #GateHouse #newsdesert
Brief history of community weekly #newspapers in #Columbus, #Ohio, USA.
A quote from the author: "it's actually insane how the local weeklies went from ubiquitous, well-read and profitable, to completely irrelevant, in the span of about 15 years. RIP. "
https://www.reddit.com/r/Columbus/comments/zmtj37/thisweek_community_news_folding_at_the_end_of/
#WeeklyNewspaper #Media #Journalism #Print #ThisWeek #Gannett #NewsDesert
I learned this week that the entire #augmentedreality team at #Gannett and #usatoday was laid off. This is the team that grew out of the #virtualreality #xr #journalism work I was involved with back in 2014.
Raise a glass to them, and rightly worry for innovation in local journalism in the digital age. This will add to the #newsdesert problem.
Hashtag-trolling (in the clear mountain lake & river sense of the word) for #Appalachian #journalists, especially #newspaper and #LocalTVnews reporters west of the #BlueRidge in Va.'s #NewRiverValley #newsdesert
So far most regional terms below get NO hits (except my posts)...
Got any better ideas?
#nrvNews #nrvJournalism #VirginiaMedia #VirginiaNews #VirginiaJournalism
#VirginiaPress
#BlueRidgeMedia
#BlueRidgeNews
@shanselman Was able to switch to permanent mail-in voting this year. We love it because we live in a local news desert and voting by-mail (or drop box) gives us time to figure out the local issues like which judges or Board of Education members to vote for and decoding the legalese of county & state ballot proposals. #VoteByMail #NewsDesert