Rebuild Local News Expands Leadership Team to Meet Critical Moment
Former Senator Steven Glazer and Matt Pearce join the team as the organization ramps up efforts to secure meaningful local news legislation.
Maryland Introduces Legislation to Safeguard Local News Ownership
The proposed legislation, HB 51, would require a 120-day notice before any sale of local news outlets, giving communities the chance to organize and prevent ownership by financial firms that often reduce local coverage.
The Rebuild Local News Coalition
Rebuild Local News is one of the nation’s leading nonpartisan, nonprofit coalitions uniting newsrooms, labor unions, and civic organizations committed to revitalizing local journalism. Collectively, we represent more than 3,000 newsrooms and over 15,000 journalists, working together to safeguard the future of local news.
- National Newspaper Association
- The NewsGuild-CWA
- Institute for Nonprofit News
- National Newspaper Publishers Association
- Local Independent Online News
- Society for Professional Journalists
- Public Media Co.
- National Association of Hispanic Publications
- Association of Alternative Newsmedia
- Center for Cooperative Media
- Institute for Rural Journalism
- National Trust for Local News
- American Journalism Project
- Solutions Journalism Network
- Local Media Consortium
- Report for America / The GroundTruth Project
- Public Knowledge
- PEN America
- Trusting News
- Media and Democracy Project
- Military Veterans in Journalism
- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- Poynter
- National Federation of Community Broadcasters
- Mid-Atlantic Community Papers Association
- Wisconsin Newspaper Association
- Kansas Press Association
- Arizona Press Association
- Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association
- Mississippi Press Association
- West Virginia Press Association
- Colorado Press Association
- Maine Press Association
- Wyoming Press Association
- Alaska News Coalition
- Chalkbeat
- Black Voice News
- Afro-American Newspapers
- Ohio Center for Journalism
- Tucson Sentinel
- The Examiner News
- Key Biscayne Independent
- West View Media
- Sierra Nevada Ally
- Alameda Post
- Wrangell Sentinel
- Greensboro Latino
- TAPinto
- My Neighborhood News Network
- The JOLT News
The Great Gutting of US Newspapers
THE DECLINE OF THE NEWS HOLE
The number of articles in 121 newspapers that were studied has plummeted as the number of reporters has declined dramatically. Source: News Hole by Danny Hayes and Jennifer Lawless
HOW YOU CAN HELP
Are you, your publication or your organization interested in joining the coalition?
How the government can help
The coalition also advocates for: antitrust reform to prevent newspaper consolidation, tax credit for consumers to subscribe to newspapers, changes to banking regulations to help small media organizations that server low and moderate income communities, and more.
