I’m a national reporter by trade but have been something of a lifelong booster of local and regional news. Unless you trust your state government implicitly in all things and are certain that your ...

Hometown Headlines: Research shows that communities with less local news have higher levels of loneliness. Here, café customers read the Midcoast Villager, a weekly newspaper serving Midcoast Maine.

Local news has long been an exception to a troubling trend. Even as trust in national news organizations eroded over the past decade and partisan divides over the media widened, local news largely ...

For several years, NPR has promised to support and highlight local news. There are measurable signs of progress. The current question is whether NPR can move fast enough to match more consumers to ...

We’re big fans of local and regional news here at Decision Points, which is why we frequently run roundups of stories about politics that may not have made national headlines. Why does local news ...

If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political ...

One of the biggest broadcast mergers in recent history is raising questions about how to keep local news alive. Last week, the Federal Communications Commission and the Justice Department signed off ...

WASHINGTON—DirecTV has filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission that include a new study rebutting longstanding arguments that lifting ownership caps on station groups will lead to ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In local news deserts in the U.S., residents rely heavily on ...

When WCVB Boston investigative reporter Mike Beaudet aired a two-part investigation into police officers who resigned before facing discipline, about 165,000 viewers watched the station’s top-rated 6 ...