1/ A kitchen-sink thread on local journalism:
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2/ Here’s what it’s like when yr hometown paper closes down: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/warroad-pioneer-news-desert.html?searchResultPosition=1 …
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3/ Here’s a fact: Being a local journalist is much harder than being, say, a nat’l reporter for the NYT. You see the people you write about. Every day. At council meetings. At the grocery. Yr job is to tell the warts&all truth about them. Then you see them again. The job...
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4/ ...is not for the meek. & it has never paid particularly well. But it is among the most essential of jobs. Meanwhile: The emerging business models….
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5/ … that might one day employ reporters capable of holding local governments accountable have, in many places, not yet arrived to save the day. That’s a tremendous challenge for our democracy. But there are…
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6/ …indeed exciting possibilities emerging. Check out
@berkeleyside . Check out@vtdigger . Check@texastribune (Thanks & h/t@Frannydink ) . Fingers crossed that innovation will win the day, & soon. For now, to understand the workings of the legacy industry, check out….Show this thread -
7/… this great story by my colleague
@marcatracy , which looks at hedge fund control of local newspaper chains, & what that means for the future of local news gathering:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/business/media/news-deserts-media-newspapers.html …Show this thread -
8/ Also check out this piece from last year from
@tarangoNYT on a California paper chain that followed the@berkeleyside model and sold stock to its readers:https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/business/media/local-newspaper-shareholders.html …Show this thread -
9/ & here’s a piece in which The Times asks a bunch of smart people how 1000 flowers might bloom again in what are now virtual news deserts:https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/01/us/news-deserts-future.html …
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10/ Finally, here’s hoping that the “enemy of the people” rhetoric emanating from the WH does not take one single conservative eyeball off of the crisis in local news gathering, which...
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11/ should be a nonpartisan matter of national concern. Check this out:https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/dont-cheer-the-decline-of-the-newspaper-industry/ …
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