Local newspapers have always been the epicenter of local news ecosystems. While communities may have other sources of journalism, such as TV and radio stations and online-only outlets, the bulk of the ...

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 ...

The US has lost a quarter of its local newsrooms, and without those, communities suffer. But experts have ways we can stem the flow. David Lumb is a senior reporter covering mobile and gaming spaces.

John Fragodt of the Swift County Monitor-News carries copies of the latest edition to be delivered throughout Benson, Minnesota. AP Photo/David Goldman It is a truly bleak picture. And yet focusing ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...

The digital era is making its mark on local news. Nearly as many Americans today say they prefer to get their local news online as say they prefer to do so through the television set, according to a ...