The list of troubles facing local news operations seems to go on forever. The rise in big box stores and ecommerce has made local newspaper retail advertising almost superfluous. The long-term decline ...

EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Beacon Media publisher Joy Fox appeared this week on “Behind the Story” to talk about local newspapers and transparency in government. Fox owns Beacon Media, which ...

America is losing its hometown storytellers. Across the country, local newspapers are closing at a pace that would have been unthinkable a generation ago — more than two a week, according to the ...

Matt McMillan is surprisingly upbeat about the business of local newspapers, even printed ones. McMillan, CEO of a group of 16 weeklies in Minnesota and Wisconsin, was elected chair of the America’s ...

More than three years ago, a group of employees from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette went on strike — and they have been walking the picket line ever since. It is currently the longest-running work ...

Officials in Marion County, Kansas, agreed Monday to pay over $3 million in damages following a police raid on a local newspaper and two homes in August 2023. The newspaper, the Marion County Record, ...

FULDA, Minn. — The end arrived this week for three local newspapers in rural southwest Minnesota. The Fulda Free Press and Murray County News, the Nobles County Review and the Murray County ADdvantage ...

The most obvious use case for generative AI in editorial operations is to write copy. When ChatGPT lit the fuse on the current AI boom, it was its ability to crank out hundreds of comprehensible words ...

The company, which publishes more than 200 local newspapers across 42 states, is adopting the name of its flagship publication. By Katie Robertson It has shaped up to be the year of the media rebrand.

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. The Smokehouse Creek Fire burned through the Texas Panhandle in 2024, eventually making its way to the small, charming town of ...

Our commentary is from former New York Times columnist Charles Blow, on a disappearing staple of communities everywhere: Local news is in crisis. By some estimates, more than 3,200 print newspapers ...

As proposals to help save local journalism gathered dust in Congress and mostly fizzled in state legislatures over the last year, 136 more newspapers closed, according to a new report. More than half ...