The decline of local journalism removes a future for the industry
Hyperlocal and local journalists like me tell stories for smaller communities that may not have “national significance”, but are important to the people in these towns and areas.
Thinking beyond ‘DEI’ to make equitable media
Andrea D. Wenzel on reimagining an equitable, cooperative, and sustainable local media system amid overlapping crises.
Libraries are a locus for civic change
Jennie Rose Halperin on the need to invest in underexplored partnerships between civic media makers and libraries as a clear place of change.
Do newsrooms need a memeologist?
In the age of meme-slop and digital newsrooms shuttering, internet culture reporters say mainstream media is ill-equipped to cover not just trends, but a radicalization that doesn't look how it used to.
Students plugging local news gaps isn’t sustainable for students, communities, or journalism
Carla Murphy on how expecting college students to “fill the gap” in local news without addressing institutional power may reify inequities.
Movement journalism can transform narratives
When we accept that we are powerless, we foreclose our own radical potential. Stories can change that.
Looking to earth and ecology to revive local news
Jennifer Brandel on the civic potential of journalism that reorients toward the land.
The national media has ignored the South. Now the South’s problems are the nation’s
Oral histories from Southern journalists and authors about the news industry’s geographical bias.
Journalism appropriately covering this political moment needs funding
As efforts to increase newsroom diversity grind to a halt or are reversed, marginalized journalists face new obstacles amid industry cutbacks and right-wing pressure.
Teen Vogue’s loss is an irreplaceable void in teen media
Between fandoms and youth activists, people don’t take teenage girls seriously — but Teen Vogue did.