The latest insights and trends on the local news landscape across the country. Through data and graphics, explore the state of local news outlets and learn about news deserts, network sites and pathwa...

A conversation with Steve Waldman of Rebuild Local News

A former intern bought Georgia’s Monticello News. Weeks later, he grew subscriptions by 30 percent.

The new law offers newsrooms tax credits for retaining and hiring journalists. Its backers hope it can do much more.

The Community NEWS Act (AB 2222), sponsored by Rebuild Local News, creates refundable tax credits to help California news outlets retain and hire local journalists

YouTube video by California Governor Gavin Newsom

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The bill would be funded by closing a tax loophole. New research finds addressing the state's news deserts would add even more to the bottom line.

The announcement last week that the McClatchy newspaper chain was laying off 90 local journalists went from sad news to appalling as the details came in. The Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky lost t...

The union that represents McClatchy journalists said that more than 90 unionized journalists and media workers across 17 publications had been laid off.

News publications all across California will run a full page ad declaring that the journalism industry is unified in support of AB-2222, the Community NEWS ...

If it's signed into law, California's new journalism support bill will raise the bar for other states looking to save local news. A sponsor has advice for them.

AI companies could make one-time contributions to permanent endowments, giving communities watchdog reporting without giving the companies control

An overview of California’s proposed local journalist employment credit for newsrooms, explaining how the program works, who qualifies, and the safeguards designed to prevent misuse.

OPINION: If Gov. Gavin Newsom signs AB2222 into law, it would become the largest investment in local news of its kind in American history, Matt Pearce writes.

At least 13 papers — including The Miami Herald, The Sacramento Bee and The Kansas City Star — lost reporters

The bill would establish the nation’s largest investment in community news, expanding reporting capacity and coverage across California.

The bill would establish the nation’s largest investment in community news, expanding reporting capacity and coverage across California.

The bill would establish the nation’s largest investment in community news, expanding reporting capacity and coverage across California.

Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.

Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.

Historic effort provides support to local news outlets for hiring or retaining local journalists, AB 2222 now heads to Gov. Newsom's desk.

The bill will require approval from two-thirds of the Legislature in the coming days in order to make it to Gov. Newsom's desk.

A single New York Times article on a disaster generated an additional $500,000 in official aid. That’s just one of the findings on the critical role a free press plays in saving lives, according to a ...

State lawmakers are attempting to help newspapers and other local news outlets as they struggle to survive a disrupted information ecosystem.

Join us for an evening of connection and conversation at this after-hours networking event. Who? All Independent News Sustainability Summit attendees are welcome. We'll also be joined by champions of...

“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that...

Last week, an AI newsroom beat mainstream journalists—including WIRED—to a story about OpenAI and hacking. It’s just the beginning.

A massive analysis of every speech given on the floors of Congress between 1939 and 2023 finds that criticism of the news media is remarkably tied to specific partisan interests and historical moments...

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Communities that lose their local news source end up paying more to borrow money — an estimated $1.1 billion more a year, nationally, according to new research from Rebuild Local News. In this episode...

California’s local news landscape — from a thriving weekly in Carmel to a one-reporter newsroom in Merced — shows why counting newspapers isn't enough

Best practices for creating a community news fellowships program that bolsters reporting capacity and increases coverage of local issues.

Researchers Dermot Murphy of the University of Illinois Chicago and Matt Baker of Rebuild Local News explain how shrinking local news coverage drives up what local governments pay to borrow.