Opinion | Why Has Local News Collapsed? Blame Readers.
WEBJun 12, 2021 · A 2018 Duke University study of 16,000 local news outlets (including broadcasters) in 100 communities deemed only about 17 percent of articles as truly local (i.e., they took place in or were...
Local News Is Dying: What's Killing It? : 1A - NPR
WEBFeb 26, 2024 · Scott Olson/Getty Images. Local newsrooms are struggling to stay alive. Major outlets, including public radio stations, continue to lay-off journalists. Why? Some of it can be chalked up to the...
Here’s why your local TV news is about to get even worse
WEBNov 13, 2017 · Is the quality of broadcast news better today than it was 20 years ago? Will it improve if companies’ legal and regulatory requirements are loosened? All Americans know the answer.
Local News Coverage Is Declining — And That Could Be Bad For …
WEBJun 2, 2021 · A growing body of research has found that government is worse off when local news suffers. In fact, inadequate local news has been linked to more corruption, less competitive elections,...
Can the News Be Fixed? - The Atlantic
WEBMay 18, 2021 · Beneath Scripps’s questions lurked another, larger one, with implications, potentially, for all of us: How can journalists rebuild local TV news, and perhaps even restore trust in the media?
Media Consolidation Means Less Local News, More Right Wing …
WEBJul 30, 2019 · Local TV news shows collectively attract 25 million nightly viewers, far more than national cable programs such as Fox News and MSNBC. And that’s been attractive to major media conglomerates, which have been snapping up local TV stations in …
How the Collapse of Local News Is Causing a ‘National Crisis’
WEBNov 20, 2019 · The loss of local news coverage in much of the United States has frayed communities and left many Americans woefully uninformed, according to a new report.
Local news hurt by broadcast media conglomerate - The …
WEBMar 29, 2018 · But even this domain is under threat, according to two researchers from Emory University who uncovered the drivers of what they label “the long-term decline in local coverage.” The scholars analyzed local TV news broadcasts to measure shifts in topics covered and ideological slant.
Media consolidation takes toll on local news but doesn’t …
WEBOct 20, 2021 · A new analysis of 350,000 news stories produced by conservative media giant Sinclair Broadcast Group finds when the company buys a station, local news definitely takes a hit. But it did not find any evidence, at scale, that coverage shifts toward a more conservative slant.
Local TV News Fact Sheet - Pew Research Center
WEBSep 14, 2023 · Local TV News Fact Sheet. Television remains a common place for Americans to get their news, and one of the most preferred sources for local news specifically. In 2022, local TV news audiences remained …