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Jun 22nd, 2010 | Topic: Culture, Economy | Region: | Cities: Chicago |
If you haven’t heard by now, journalism is currently on America’s endangered species list. But two recent reports neatly summarized approaches to saving the news that warrant some optimism. (
keep reading…)
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Mar 8th, 2010 | Topic: Governance | Region: East Coast | Cities: Washington, D.C. |
As the FCC considers changing the way it allocates broadcast spectrum, Lee Shaker argues that the money saved by such a move could be used to improve local news. (
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Feb 12th, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: East Coast | Cities: Baltimore, Philadelphia |
A media expert weighs in on a new report that examines Baltimore’s local news landscape, and finds that the web is not a meaningful source of new local information, even as it undermines the big daily. (
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Jan 21st, 2010 | Topic: Culture | Region: Central, East Coast | Cities: Boston, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco |
A media scholar explains why the local news sites of national publications like the
New York Times and the
Wall Street Journal might be far less threatening to city newspapers than national news organizations’ forays into local sports coverage. (
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Oct 13th, 2009 | Topic: Governance | Region: | Cities: |
Lee Shaker reports and comments on a new report from the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, a response to the downward spiral of local newspapers across America. The report offers 15 recommendations to secure the future of journalism. (
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If you haven’t heard by now, journalism is currently on America’s endangered species list. But two recent reports neatly summarized approaches to saving the news that warrant some optimism. (keep reading…)
As the FCC considers changing the way it allocates broadcast spectrum, Lee Shaker argues that the money saved by such a move could be used to improve local news. (keep reading…)
A media expert weighs in on a new report that examines Baltimore’s local news landscape, and finds that the web is not a meaningful source of new local information, even as it undermines the big daily. (keep reading…)
A media scholar explains why the local news sites of national publications like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal might be far less threatening to city newspapers than national news organizations’ forays into local sports coverage. (keep reading…)
