Shifting the focus of a newspaper’s opinion section from national (Trump! Pelosi! distant, scary!) to local (schools! development! nearby, impactful!) can reduce political polarization, a new study finds.
“We believe for local news to have a future, it has to be built for people when they truly need information before it is built for people when they are just curious.”
Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.
Newspapers have all had to make cuts. But it doesn’t look like they’ve favored the beats that are most important to democracy — watchdog coverage of local governments — over other kinds of news.
Hanaa' Tameez and Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 24, 2020
Lookout doesn’t want its local news sites to be a supplement or alternative to the local daily. They aim to be the news source of record in their communities, outgunning their shrunken newsprint rivals from Day 1.
Meredith Kopit Levien, everyone seems to agree, is the right person to lead the Times into the 2020s. But here’s hoping she’ll view her mission more broadly — including the state of local news in America.
Kennedy, Dan. "Margaret Sullivan has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 10 Jul. 2020. Web. 7 May. 2021.
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Kennedy, D. (2020, Jul. 10). Margaret Sullivan has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved May 7, 2021, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/07/margaret-sullivan-has-written-a-brisk-and-useful-guide-to-the-horrifying-decline-of-local-news/
Chicago
Kennedy, Dan. "Margaret Sullivan has written a brisk and useful guide to the horrifying decline of local news." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 10, 2020. Accessed May 7, 2021. https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/07/margaret-sullivan-has-written-a-brisk-and-useful-guide-to-the-horrifying-decline-of-local-news/.
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