The local news and information environment is changing in ways that most people believe makes it easier for them to get the specific information they want about their communities. More than half of ...

This report reexamines those data with an eye toward how local news consumption practices vary by community type. Specifically, it focuses on the ways residents in large cities, suburbs, small towns ...

Their methodologies differ, but such initiatives seek to make sense of the splintered reality of where people are getting their local news and information. Often, it’s not just from a legacy news ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. In local news deserts in the U.S., residents rely heavily on ...

Image: Adobe Stock, Peggy's Cove lighthouse, Nova Scotia, Canada. Lobster boat gathering traps in the background. There is now a broader willingness to consider—or, perhaps more accurately, to see—the ...

Local search intent is defined as the goal a searcher has when they type a query into a search engine when seeking a resource in a specific geographic location. The local searcher could be looking for ...

When a terrible winter storm and widespread utility failures hit Texas last month, we were happy to see local newsrooms in the state work to get people the information they needed to survive during ...

Yearly polls from Gallup paint a dire picture of Americans’ trust in news media — last year’s poll reported a near record low in media trust, with only 34% of respondents expressing a “great deal” or ...