Americans' attention to local news has declined since 2016. Explore how people get local news today, shifting from TV and print to digital sources.

I started my journalism career with a typewriter, a notebook and a pretty basic motivation: I wanted to know what was happening in my community and why. The typewriter is long gone, replaced by ...

Opinion: In the past 25 years, the news media has experienced a significant loss of trust, with one remarkable exception: ...

ANNAPOLIS — Maryland lawmakers are concerned that many counties across the state have only a few news outlets and how that could impact communities getting vital local coverage. “That’s where you’re ...

For more than a century, newspapers were sustained by a simple business model: Readers paid for the product through subscriptions and advertisers paid to reach those readers. The incentives aligned, ...

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