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Here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest research on local news’ impact and future

Christine SchmidtOctober 7, 2019

12 local newsrooms, seven states, one big problem: How an INN collaboration is nationalizing the rural healthcare crisis

“If the Iowa Falls newspaper writes about its hospital for two years, it’s an Iowa Falls problem that Iowa Falls has to solve…And by the time you’re talking about a major region of the nation like that, it becomes a national problem to be solved.”

Christine SchmidtOctober 1, 2019

“So where are we?”: A McClatchy newspaper is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to support its education reporting

“Asking people to support the Bee via digital subscription can be a path for us. However, that path is long. This effort can help serve as a bridge.”

As regulators investigate, Google is now funding the creation of local news sites in the US and the UK

Christine SchmidtSeptember 19, 2019

Here’s Chalkbeat’s vision for local education news by 2025

The network’s pitch to local funders: “By the time the school reforms reached their zenith, there was not a single local education reporter dedicated to covering them.”

Matthew Weber, Peter Andringa, and Philip M. NapoliSeptember 12, 2019

Researchers analyzed more than 300,000 local news stories on Facebook. Here’s what they found.

“59 percent of the stories we were able to categorize served a critical information need…Aside from critical information needs, 31 percent of stories categorized covered sports and 9 percent were obituaries.”

Laura Hazard OwenSeptember 11, 2019

Here’s what we know so far about the upcoming Facebook News tab

Facebook’s News Tab is supposed to launch this fall; the company will pay some news publishers to syndicate their headlines and article previews.

“The death of the 15-inch story”: What local news leaders see (and don’t) in the future of the industry

Philip Napoli and Jessica MahoneSeptember 9, 2019

Local newspapers are suffering, but they’re still (by far) the most significant journalism producers in their communities

“While local newspapers accounted for roughly 25 percent of the local media outlets in our sample, they accounted for nearly 50 percent of the original news stories in our database.”

Christine SchmidtAugust 26, 2019

Every crime map needs context. This USC data journalism project aims to scale it

“When we do a story looking at 18 different commuting routes, we’ve created 18 different stories, in a way — we’ve created a story with 18 distinct audiences.”

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