Hudson Reporter abruptly closing after 40 years of local news reporting
The Hudson Reporter, a local weekly newspaper that has covered all 12 municipalities in the county for the past 40 years, is abruptly closing at the end of January 2023.
Could McClatchy become a nonprofit newspaper chain?
In February, McClatchy, the newspaper chain that owns titles including the Miami Herald and the Charlotte Observer, filed for bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York.
Can Digital Business Models Save Local News?
As advertising support continues to dwindle, NJ’s news operations flirt with fresh revenue options.
Bowing to pressure, Google says it will pay publishers for news
For the better part of a decade, publishers have been begging (or threatening) Google, seeking compensation for the news they provide on its platform. And for all of those years, Google has adamantly refused—until now.
A Media Critic Focuses on the Crisis in Local News
Before she became a media columnist, Margaret Sullivan saw the crisis in the American newspaper industry from within. She spent roughly three decades at The Buffalo News and was the first woman to serve as its top editor, a job she held from 1999 to 2012.
Bowing to pressure, Google says it will pay publishers for news
June 26, 2020
Via Columbia Journalism Review
For the better part of a decade, publishers have been begging (or threatening) Google, seeking compensation for the news they provide on its platform. And for all of those years, Google has adamantly refused—until now.
Philanthropic Options for Newspaper Owners: A Practical Guide
Published October 7, 2019
Struggling newspapers across the country are asking: How long can we stay in business? With profitable days disappearing in the rearview mirror, should we secure our financial prospects by formally converting to nonprofit status?
For Local News, Americans Embrace Digital but Still Want Strong Community Connection
March 26, 2019
The digital era is making its mark on local news. Nearly as many Americans today say they prefer to get their local news online as say they prefer to do so through the television set, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of 34,897 U.S. adults conducted Oct. 15-Nov. 8, 2018, on the Center’s American Trends Panel and Ipsos’s KnowledgePanel.
Local Journalism in Crisis: Why America Must Revive Its Local Newsrooms
Published 2019
The economic challenges confronting local newspapers—which are uniquely positioned to devote the time and resources needed to undertake in-depth, investigative, and public interest journalism—has
contributed to significant coverage gaps in local news markets. Struggling financially, many newspapers around the country have closed in recent years.
Betting on the success of local journalism
June 13, 2018
Via Columbia Journalism Review
If you work in local news, you know the misery numbers. Good things spiral down: more than a quarter million jobs lost over the past three decades; year after year of double digit percentage declines in print circulation; tens of billions of dollars of lost advertising revenue. Bad things spike: news deserts, zombie news enterprises, fake news, public distrust.
Small-market newspapers in the digital age
November 15, 2017
Via the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia Journalism Review
Too often we tend to hear one single narrative about the state of newspapers in the United States. The newspaper industry is not one sector. While there are considerable variances between the myriad of outlets—whether national titles, major metros, dailies in large towns, alt weeklies, publications in rural communities, ethnic press, and so on—a major challenge for anyone trying to make sense of industry data is its aggregated nature.