On an orange background, this square image centers on logo imagery from the Local News Day organization edged by six photos around the edges that show a typical range of local events: Top L-R, a bookmobile, a rainy police callout, and a “No Kings” demonstration. Bottom L-R, firefighters responding to a house fire, girls playing soccer, and a car that smashed into a local tea shop. Logo images courtesy of Local News Day on Facebook. Small photos all courtesy of the Shawnee Mission Post.

Today is the first #LocalNewsDay, an #event created to raise awareness of how important #local #news is. Normally, the most important news happens close to home! Yet #newsdeserts are becoming ever more widespread. Fight #corruption! Support local news!
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Future of news is local, says Culture Secretary, as she launches the first action plan to back local news in a generation First local media strategy in a generation guarantees up to £12m funding for local media’s digital innovation, for community radio and to fill ‘news deserts’

'The future of news is local' - Lisa Nandy's strategy statement, announced today at a #SocietyofEditors conference on the UK Government's priorities in building up the sector once again:
www.gov.uk/government/n...
#localnews #newsdeserts #LisaNandy #moneyfordigitaldevelopment

Bedford Independent meets MPs to discuss future of local news - Bedford Independent The Bedford Independent joined MPs in Westminster to highlight rising UK “news deserts” and discuss how to protect trusted, accountable...

'When trusted local news disappears, public understanding of local issues declines, misinformation spreads more easily, and communities lose vital scrutiny of councils, developers and public bodies...'

#Bedford #BedfordNews #Journalism #PublicInterestNews #PINF #NewsDeserts #LocalNews #Media

Community-centered journalism class teaches students about serving Oregon news deserts - Daily Emerald Andrew DeVigal has been connecting journalism students to Oregon towns with shrinking local media since 2018. His course works in partnership with UO’s Sustainable City Year Program which aims to help...

Journalist Quinton Smith retired, saw the need and built a small but excellent nonprofit news source on the Oregon coast. Story from The Daily Emerald, student newspaper at the University of Oregon: dailyemerald.com/177173/campu... #nonprofitnews #newsdeserts @lincolnchronicle.org.web.brid.gy

News deserts hit new high and 50 million have limited access to local news, study finds - Medill - Northwestern University The number of local news deserts in the U.S. jumped to record levels this year as newspaper closures continued unabated, and funding cuts to public radio could worsen the problem in coming months, acc...

"Utilizing predictive modeling created by the school’s Spiegel Research Center, the Medill team found 250 counties at high risk of becoming #newsdeserts over the next decade". www.medill.northwestern.edu/news/2025/ne...

The loss of smaller #NPR & #PBS #stations . Will create #newsdeserts. Where's theirs no #internet . Which will serve #conservative interests

$1.1 billion slashed from CPB funding.
PBS/NPR silent.
Rural listeners—no news, no alerts, no voice.
This isn’t saving money—it’s erasing communities.
🧡 #ORANGEDOOSH #NewsDeserts #NoKingsInAmerica

Local news deserts threaten our democracy. That’s where Postindustrial comes in Local news deserts threaten our democracy by leaving communities without reliable information. Learn why this matters.

Local news deserts threaten our democracy. That’s where Postindustrial comes in
#localnews #newsdeserts #postindustrialcommunities

New report maps a “severe” shortage of local journalists in the U.S. The report from Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack finds that more than 1,000 counties — one out of three in the nation — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist.

No reporters. No watchdogs. No transparency.

This new map from Medill shows that hundreds of U.S. counties now have zero local journalists. We’re not just losing stories—we’re losing the civic glue that holds communities together.

🧵 www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/new-...

#NewsDeserts #LocalPressCrisis

No reporters, no questions, no accountability: Why news deserts are a threat to our communities - Bedford Independent News deserts are growing across the UK. Find out why the loss of local journalism threatens democracy, accountability and communities...

No reporters means no questions and no accountability.
News deserts are on the rise, and communities are paying the price. Read how local journalism protects democracy, and what Bedford’s experience can teach us...

#Bedford #BedfordNews #MediaLiteracy #NewsDeserts #JournalismMatters

9/11 The closures reflect a devastating national trend. According to the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, nearly 2.5 million Canadians now live in postal codes with only one or zero local news outlets—double the number in 2008.
#NewsDeserts #JournalismCrisis

#KNOXVILLETN
Friends, do not let the regime turn us on each other. The #RedStates like #TN have supermajorities due to #votersuppression
#gerrymandering
#propaganda
#darkmoney &
#newsdeserts
I could go on. In #TN for ex, people are protesting across the state. I’ve seen it.
@indivisible.org

Up next: what real resistance looks like—from local organizers to trust repair.

#FakeNewsSites #DisinfoPlaybook #InformationJustice #NewsDeserts #CivicResilience

Why Defunding NPR and PBS Is a Strategic Mistake The case for protecting—and strengthening—America’s public media infrastructure

open.substack.com/pub/michaelk... #PublicMedia #NPR #PBS #MediaPolicy #CivicInfrastructure
#DefundDebunked #NewsDeserts
#NonprofitMedia #MediaBiasMyth
#InformedDemocracy

That's a misconception.
Please read about #NewsDeserts, and how massive swaths of Americans do NOT get any local news. And learn now to combat that with #TruthBombs

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OPz...

It’s that they DON’T KNOW.
#NewsDeserts are ground zero of the problem. How do we get the truth to people?

Ken Harbaugh and Joe Walsh discuss how misinformation about the economy, crime, and immigration influenced Trump voters. #Misinformation #NewsDeserts #PoliticalDivide

@walshfreedom.bsky.social

youtube.com/shorts/9NMKe...

Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

On KQNY's Community Matters program, The Plumas Sun's own Tommy Miles and Lindsay Morton discuss the news website, it's mission, and it's future.

Listen here --> bit.ly/Tommy-and-Li...

#PlumasCounty #theplumassun #plumas #localnews #localnewsmatters #newsdeserts #newsdesert #nonprofitnews

Local news deserts are expanding. But could there be green shoots? I’ve always considered myself to be an optimist, a glass-is-half-full kind of guy. Yet in my role overseeing the Medill State of Local News Project for the past three years, I’ve had to suppress my in...

If the mainstream media won't cover these events, how are we supposed to find them?

Local media is one source (as evidenced above), but many Americans live in #newsdeserts. Nearly 54 million Americans don't have access to #localnews. localmedia.org/2024/10/loca...

NYT, CNN, etal, are Trump proofing. They see what happened to ABC & now Paramount (maybe?🤞).

I second you. SUPPORT independent media!

And remember our friends/family in #newsdeserts. Share alternative media sources so they get the WHOLE story.

News Deserts Don't confuse them with new desserts...one is sweet and the other is contributing to political polarization.

#NewsDeserts #LocalPolitics @piperformissouri.bsky.social

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The year has only just begun, and I am lucky enough to be part of the conference of the Swiss Political Science Association at the University of #Geneva. Many thanks to the organizers! I am looking forward to my presentation tomorrow morning on the topic of #newsdeserts in the literature.

Why supporting a robust #CBC is important for ACs is because the like so many other parts of Canada, the APs are #newsdeserts. The majority of local reporting received by any particular AC will be generated as a result of the #CBC

#cdnpoli #cadpoli #peipoli

This commercial for Sling is heinous. Neighbors angrily hurl their newspapers at the paper boy shouting "I only let Sling deliver the news I want!" + "Sling gives us all the news we want!"
127 newspapers in the US closed the first 9 months of 2024 alone.
#TVcommercial #sling #newspapers #newsdeserts