January 22, 2025

Hyperlocal Journalism Articles and Resources

Reporters need more training to recognize when advocacy groups and other actors — some malicious — are using them to help sow election interference.
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Reporters need more training to recognize when advocacy groups and other actors — some malicious — are using them to help sow election interference.

Robert Washburn July 12, 2020
Reporters need more training to recognize when advocacy groups and other actors — some malicious — are...
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Book review of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan – The Washington Post
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Book review of Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy by Margaret Sullivan – The Washington Post

Robert Washburn July 11, 2020
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Australia becomes the next battleground country to try and force Facebook and Google to pay local news publishers.
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Australia becomes the next battleground country to try and force Facebook and Google to pay local news publishers.

Robert Washburn July 11, 2020
SYDNEY – U.S. tech titans Google and Facebook will know in the next few months how much...
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News you can use: When local media outlets go dark, everyone loses — even if people don’t realize it right away
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News you can use: When local media outlets go dark, everyone loses — even if people don’t realize it right away

Robert Washburn July 10, 2020
It was the biggest business story most people missed this week. A large company announced it was...
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Columnist Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now it’s vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. – The Washington Post
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Columnist Margaret Sullivan started out in a vibrant local-newspaper industry. Now it’s vanishing, leaving our very democracy in peril. – The Washington Post

Robert Washburn July 9, 2020
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