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Articles tagged States Newsroom (4)

Joshua BentonMay 7, 2024

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline

For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.

Sarah ScireMarch 8, 2023

Pew’s Stateline finds a new home with nonprofit States Newsroom

“Many nonprofits that pop up are [focused on] long-term investigative reporting … but we need the daily hard-hitting coverage to complement that.”

Sarah ScireApril 5, 2022

In state capitols, nonprofit newsrooms are filling gaps left by newspaper cuts

The overall number of journalists covering statehouses in the U.S. has risen since 2014, but fewer reporters are covering the capitols full-time, according to a new report.

Jessica Mahone and Philip NapoliJuly 13, 2020

Hundreds of hyperpartisan sites are masquerading as local news. This map shows if there’s one near you.

We found that while the (few) left-leaning sites prioritize statewide reporting, right-leaning sites are more focused on local reporting, indicating the potential for these sites to exacerbate polarization in local communities.