Your local news is dying a slow death. Who's to blame? What can we do? And what do we lose when we lose local news? Listen now.
Our sources for this episode:
Our episode on fact-checking: https://anchor.fm/the-ink-sink/episodes/11-The-First-Fact-Checker-Quit-After-Just-a-Few-Months-e1kqg8s
Why it matters: local news is instrumental in things like missing person cases: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/12/jashyah-moore-missing-person-found/
What is lost when we lose local journalists: appreciation for local figures: https://mailchi.mp/poynter/k6pg1xp7fq?e=e5489eccb5
More on the importance of local news, this time from Ukraine: https://pressgazette.co.uk/ukraine-war-local-media/
State of local news in 2022: https://pressgazette.co.uk/news-deserts-research-newspapers-closed/
Trust in the news: https://news.gallup.com/poll/394817/media-confidence-ratings-record-lows.aspx
Impact of government investment on local newsrooms across the world: https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/how-to-pay-for-reliable-information-new-strategies-and-initiatives/
Google investing in local newsletters: https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/reach-creates-email-innovation-lab-partners-with-google-news-initiative-to-turbocharge-newsletters/
Cost consideration: reporters are expensive. Some newsrooms turn to robots; https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/robots-produce-the-information-journalists-do-the-journalism-mcclatchy-goes-real-estate-robotic/
Axios investing in local newsletters: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/07/business/media/axios-local.html
Independent news media has options, but not many: https://pressgazette.co.uk/future-of-local-news-independent-publishers/
60 Minutes takes on Alden Capital, the corporation buying up and gutting local news: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/local-news-financial-firms-60-minutes-video-2022-02-27/
More from the private capital front lines: https://mailchi.mp/poynter/k2w5awaw67?e=e5489eccb5
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