How Journalism Students Are Filling Gaps in Local News

By: Robert Washburn | December 19, 2021

As the local news crisis grows, staffs are thinning out and gaps in coverage are widening. But reinforcements are coming — journalism students doing the work that would otherwise go undone. University of Kansas students are operating a local news website in a “news desert” about 10 miles east […]

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