Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Freshly printed newspapers. Stock photo from Getty Images. It’s hardly news that local coverage in Ohio’s cities and towns isn’t ...

I started my journalism career with a typewriter, a notebook and a pretty basic motivation: I wanted to know what was happening in my community and why. The typewriter is long gone, replaced by ...

Americans' attention to local news has declined since 2016. Explore how people get local news today, shifting from TV and ...

This week, many of us made lists of things we are grateful for. We offered thanks for our families, friends, our health, and for the little moments of comfort and calm that we find in what sometimes ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In April 2024, the Local News Initiative, in conjunction with ...

Every September since 2012, thousands of volunteers have come together around a shared goal: getting more Americans registered to vote. They’ve channeled attention and energy into a single day, dubbed ...

Many Americans say they have lost trust in national news – but most still believe they can rely on the accuracy of local news. In 2023, trust in national newspapers, TV and radio reached historic lows ...

Across the country, the kinds of budget cuts that have decimated newspapers over the years are now slicing into local TV news stations. A trend of TV news layoffs “is only just the beginning,” one ...