There are lots of ideas about how to save local news. One of them is that increasing coverage of local politics will bring back readers and viewers. Research shows that it doesn’t.
Court leet records provide a vivid picture of the disagreements and disputes which pre-occupied medieval townspeople.
Copies of the ‘Montreal Gazette’ are shown on a newsstand in Montréal on Feb. 16, 2023. Local Montréal businessman Mitch Garber has expressed interest in buying the newspaper.
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Local media ownership brings a level of accountability to the news business and offers benefits to communities by increasing voter turnout, reducing polarization and saving communities money.
Balloon sellers during the Muslim celebrations of Eid al-Fitr.
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Local journalism should be recognised as an essential element for nurturing the UK’s diverse, civic communities.
An Endicott College student covers Election Day in November 2020 in a Massachusetts community as part of the college’s news-academic partnership with Gannett Media.
Sloan Friedhaber