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A Detroit Department of Elections worker pushes the crowd back as absentee ballots are counted on Nov. 4, 2020. Brittany Greeson/New York Times via Redux November 8 is the date of the midterm elections, but today — September 15 — is Democracy Day . An initiative of news industry […]
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This week , Steve Waldman, the cofounder and president of Report for America, published a two-part report for CJR about the local-news crisis. In it, Waldman considers the decline in newsroom newspaper staff against a few other data points—there are currently far fewer reporters per 100,000 people, and per […]
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“Can we leave people with a sense of belonging? A sense of purpose or of wonder? A sense of agency even in the face of systemic problems?” What’s the future of journalism? It’s a fragile future, one that needs us to solve a crisis of lack of trust. Too […]
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Chicago journalists and Block Club Chicago readers wear Block Club-branded shirts. (Courtesy Stephanie Lulay) Last May, a pair of endangered piping plovers laid eggs on Chicago’s Montrose Beach. As cinema stars and mascots for local conservationists, the two birds – dubbed Monty and Rose – had already built up […]
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Service journalism is having a moment. Newsrooms large and small are discovering — and in some cases, rediscovering — that they can find traction in giving consumers practical information, on subjects ranging from voting to student debt to COVID-19, in a confusing world. With midterm elections approaching, economic concerns […]
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How do local newsrooms cover elections at a time when democratic principles are under attack, basic voting procedures are questioned, and many people fear the future of personal rights? It’s a challenge that fiercely emerged during 2020’s political and social unrest. Now, with another unusual and significant election cycle […]
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The government should reconsider the plan for a bargaining code between news outlets and tech giants and consider revenue redistribution instead. The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently tabled the Online News Act , a proposed news media bargaining code law similar to one that Australian authorities have […]
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Survey finds that while trust in traditional media is up, so are concerns journalists purposely mislead people through falsehoods and exaggeration. At a time when issues of health, social restrictions and economic anxiety have dominated the news, it’s perhaps no surprise that concerns about trust in media and misinformation […]
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“The term ‘news desert’ has been a shorthand, but the real problem here and elsewhere is that this region lacked the number of journalists it needed to thoroughly inform the public.” We called it the 3 a.m. Club. RELATED ARTICLE We converged in Denver in mid-October last year, between […]
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Our goal is to provide a better understanding of the Canadian Mainstream Media in a time of great digital proliferation where radical transparency may help rebuild trust. Some outlets on this index may not be deeemed journalism by many. We list those media orgs with over 12,000 monthly uniques […]
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