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Joshua BentonJuly 14, 2021

I have come to bury Knewz, not to praise it

News Corp’s painfully named news aggregator promised to somehow battle “crass clickbait,” filter bubbles, media bias, and two trillion-dollar companies, all at once. It ended up being a D-minus Drudge clone and OnlyFans blog.

Anne SchulzJune 30, 2021

The great unbundling of local news

Local news’ bundling of hard news, soft news, and other information used to be a major selling point, but the audience now believes there are better sources elsewhere for most of it.

Ellen Clegg and Dan KennedyMay 26, 2021

The local news crisis will be solved one community at a time

Though the collapse of community journalism is real enough, we believe that its causes are only partly understood.

Joshua BentonApril 1, 2021

Maybe just shut up about national politics if you want to reduce polarization?

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.

Sarah AlvarezMarch 22, 2021

Build for a crisis: Ideas for the future of local news

“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.”

Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2021

Is unpublishing old crime stories Orwellian or empathetic? The Boston Globe is offering past story subjects a “fresh start”

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.

Joshua BentonOctober 23, 2020

As they shrink, are local newspapers protecting their “iron core” of local government coverage? This paper says no

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

As local news outlets shift to subscription, they wonder: What should Facebook’s role be?

“Look, I know you got that Facebook comment, but it’s the vocal minority. There’s a silent majority who are actually paying for our work.”

JulieAnn McKelloggSeptember 24, 2020

The new folks in town are an untapped audience for local news (even if they don’t stay forever)

“I started to recognize the value of local news as a journalist, yet spent no time on it as a local resident of Washington, D.C.”

Sarah ScireSeptember 16, 2020

NPR adds localized news for 10 cities to its afternoon podcast Consider This

Listeners in 10 regions will hear local news after national stories thanks to geo-targeting technology being used in a new way.

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