Over the years, the crisis facing local news has meant the disappearance of reporting on the arts, politics, sports and local government. Newspapers have disappeared from many local communities, and the ranks of individual local journalists have plummeted over the past two decades. The retrenchment has also led to a loss of something else: reporters and columnists at local news […] … learn more→
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I teach college and report on Colorado media — there should be more professors doing the same in other states
f you want to be well informed, don’t fall for the headline traps (and this isn’t one of them)
Twenty years ago, it was still common to go buy bread and a newspaper. Paper required slow reading, turning the pages with your fingers, and having a pencil handy to fill out a crossword puzzle. But the economic crisis erupted in the mid-2000s. As the internet grew in homes and social media reached mobile devices, […] … learn more→
Objectivity, independent media and news avoidance: the terms you need to know to understand news today
The way we get our news is changing fast. The latest research from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University shows that, around the world, news consumers are turning to Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok rather than television, radio or newspapers. Nearly a quarter of adults under 24 get their news from TikTok. […] … learn more→
