“I really believe in the power of people to organize and advocate from the bottom up to create some solutions to this. I don’t think these solutions are going to come out of commercial media.”
NJ Spotlight and NJTV News may be onto a trend: “Really the quality of the journalism and business model made it viable for us and make it viable for the other legacy stations around the country.”
The dollar amount isn’t huge, and it will barely put a dent in the crisis of local news. But it’s also an official statement that communities’ information voids are a problem worthy of government attention.
Wang, Shan. "Hundreds of local reporters in New Jersey were laid off this past year. What does that mean for the state?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 17 Mar. 2017. Web. 2 Jun. 2020.
APA
Wang, S. (2017, Mar. 17). Hundreds of local reporters in New Jersey were laid off this past year. What does that mean for the state?. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved June 2, 2020, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/hundreds-of-local-reporters-in-new-jersey-were-laid-off-this-past-year-what-does-that-mean-for-the-state/
Chicago
Wang, Shan. "Hundreds of local reporters in New Jersey were laid off this past year. What does that mean for the state?." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 17, 2017. Accessed June 2, 2020. https://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/hundreds-of-local-reporters-in-new-jersey-were-laid-off-this-past-year-what-does-that-mean-for-the-state/.
Wikipedia
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