A study from Rebuild Local News found that the lack of journalism in communities results in increased costs “in the form of higher taxes or cuts in services.”
I personally look at it as folks are consuming in a completely different manner then when the Elm leaves had on staff journalists.
If I recall correctly it ended direct because folks were just not consuming news I. That manner. I am sure you can find the archives of when this happened.
But as much as I can disagree with things on here I do appreciate this formatt as it is important for that exact reason paper media is just not a thing any more.
It ended because a corporation called the Tribune Media Group took over and later merged with Nexstar. Management no longer prioritized assigning reporters to regularly cover many of the suburbs. And to be clear, this study considered the fact that a digital news site could take the place of a newspaper that shut down (for example, Harvey World in Harvey, IL). —Kevin Gosztola
So I lived here when it closed down. I can tell you as I had friends and family that worked with and contributed to it.
The reader ship was way down once online blogging at that time had taken off.
It is the same reason our local news station went away. I worked for the local news station. Channel 6. We put out a live news cast each week on local happenings in town. Covered crime and weather and local news events. The station attempted to merge in the HS in the late 90s and by early 2000 shut down as folks were just consuming info online much more at at that point.
It was a cool job for me I was the audio guy for the live news cast and I believe what they call a nightcrawler now. Went around filming accidents and worse at night for the news real. But even at 17 18 I saw what was coming and did not pursue that as a career path. Hence the pivot to engineering.
I will give you that a large corp did buy up all the small news places. But it was a reaction to the devaluation of them.
I have a buddy going thru it right now with the daily hareld who he writes for. They are being purchased and asimulated into a larger news borg ship.
Hopefully you can get yourself rooted to weather what ever storms come your way in the next few years. But allot of people have lost trust in any media and sadly have fallen into the slop trap of click baity news that is so easily accessible these days and sadly amusing although not very informative to read.
I follow some weird stuff on substack. I find the weird crap is a good measuring rod of how things are actually going and right now it is pretty nuts on both ends of the spectrum.
I do question the statement news desert.
I personally look at it as folks are consuming in a completely different manner then when the Elm leaves had on staff journalists.
If I recall correctly it ended direct because folks were just not consuming news I. That manner. I am sure you can find the archives of when this happened.
But as much as I can disagree with things on here I do appreciate this formatt as it is important for that exact reason paper media is just not a thing any more.
It ended because a corporation called the Tribune Media Group took over and later merged with Nexstar. Management no longer prioritized assigning reporters to regularly cover many of the suburbs. And to be clear, this study considered the fact that a digital news site could take the place of a newspaper that shut down (for example, Harvey World in Harvey, IL). —Kevin Gosztola
So I lived here when it closed down. I can tell you as I had friends and family that worked with and contributed to it.
The reader ship was way down once online blogging at that time had taken off.
It is the same reason our local news station went away. I worked for the local news station. Channel 6. We put out a live news cast each week on local happenings in town. Covered crime and weather and local news events. The station attempted to merge in the HS in the late 90s and by early 2000 shut down as folks were just consuming info online much more at at that point.
It was a cool job for me I was the audio guy for the live news cast and I believe what they call a nightcrawler now. Went around filming accidents and worse at night for the news real. But even at 17 18 I saw what was coming and did not pursue that as a career path. Hence the pivot to engineering.
I will give you that a large corp did buy up all the small news places. But it was a reaction to the devaluation of them.
I have a buddy going thru it right now with the daily hareld who he writes for. They are being purchased and asimulated into a larger news borg ship.
Hopefully you can get yourself rooted to weather what ever storms come your way in the next few years. But allot of people have lost trust in any media and sadly have fallen into the slop trap of click baity news that is so easily accessible these days and sadly amusing although not very informative to read.
I follow some weird stuff on substack. I find the weird crap is a good measuring rod of how things are actually going and right now it is pretty nuts on both ends of the spectrum.