Medill’s State of Local News 2025 report once again captures the changing shape of America’s local news landscape — and the expanding concern over news deserts. The report, which is ...

An estimated 136 newspapers have closed during the past year. News deserts are expanding and traffic to some of the top newspaper websites has been declining over the past few years.

Digital news sites don’t come close to replacing the number of newspapers and journalism jobs being lost. And the digital ...

News deserts grew across America over the last year as more newspapers failed, even though proposals to help save the ...