(Every Day Should Be) Local News Day
It's sponsored by various modes of community-serving media.
There should be scads of participants--metropolitan newspapers, community newspapers, public radio and public television programs, I guess local television station news, although it tends to not be in depth, and digital only news sources.
There aren't that many member newsrooms so far.
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-- "Inside the crisis facing local TV news" (2026)
-- "Davis Kennedy, a one time force in local community newspapers, dies at 87" (2026)
-- "Washington City Paper community media project" (2026)
-- "Another media tragedy: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is shutting down" (2026)
-- "New Jersey loses largest published newspaper: Newark Star-Ledger" (2025)
-- "Newspaper acquisition as an element of a conservative agenda" (2024)
-- "The impact of local radio news in England" (2022)
-- "Newspapers as public media: WBEZ, radio, an NPR affiliate, to merge with the Chicago Sun-Times" (2022)
-- "Louisville Courier-Journal mobile newsroom initiative and Salt Lake Tribune Innovations Lab" (2022)
-- "Orange County Register coronavirus tracker graphic is a great model" (2021)
-- "Local music used to define communities: today with radio chains and national music distribution systems, not so much" (2021)
-- "Newspapers, community media, and knowledge about and engagement in civic affairs" (2020)
-- "Revisiting community radio" (2020)
-- "Thinking anew about supporting community radio" (2019)
-- "Culture planning and radio: local music, local content vs. delivery nodes for a national network" (2019)
-- "One more blow against community media: Washington Post drops Thursday "county" news special sections" (2017)
-- "The ongoing tragedy of dying print media, the latest being community newspapers in Montgomery and Prince George's Counties, Maryland" (2015)
-- "Grassroots communications capability in the city" (2015)
-- "Protest as Civic Engagement and the role of the media" (2007)
Labels: broadcast television, civic engagement, community media, media and communications, newspapers, radio
posted by Richard Layman @ 3:53 PM&Permanent Link
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https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-village-media-knight-foundation-community-news/
Village Media launching U.S. community news websites with investment from Knight Foundation
In Canada, Village has a positive track record of identifying markets that can sustain its free, ad-supported websites. Since its inception in 2013, it has never shuttered any of the Canadian properties it owns.
That is notable in a country where more than 600 local outlets have closed or merged since 2008, including more than 60 digital publications, according to data from the Local News Research Project. Canada’s largest publishers – including Postmedia, Glacier Media, Black Press, TC Transcontinental and Torstar – have closed dozens of publications over that period. Although roughly 430 outlets have launched since 2008, more than a third of them subsequently closed.
American publishers have faced similar challenges, leading to what are known as “news deserts.” Nearly 40 per cent of local newspapers in the U.S. closed between 2005 and 2025, according to Northwestern University’s State of Local News report, “leaving 50 million Americans with limited or no access to a reliable source of local news.” Publishers in both Canada and the U.S. have struggled to adapt to shifting consumer habits and the loss of traditional advertising revenue to global tech giants and social media platforms.
With its free, ad-supported model for community news, Village has had success where many other publishers have struggled. The modern news ecosystem is built on the presumption that massive scale is typically required to make ad-supported models financially viable. The alternative is to charge a subscription fee for content that a smaller, more engaged audience feels is worth paying for.
Mr. Elgie believes there are markets in which the model’s economics still work well, as long as there is sufficient community engagement. “As much as everyone talks about the ad business being challenged, there’s demonstrably much more available local revenue than what we could ever hope to get out of subscription in these markets,” he said.
https://s35582.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/LocalNewsMapDataJune2026.pdf
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