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LOCAL JOURNALIST INDEX
For the first time at a national scale, we’ve estimated how many journalists remain in each U.S. county, revealing a nationwide shortage of local journalists that’s more widespread and severe than previously understood.
The Rebuild Local News Coalition
- National Newspaper Association
- Press Forward
- The NewsGuild-CWA
- Institute for Nonprofit News
- National Newspaper Publishers Association
- LION Publishers
- Society of Professional Journalists
- Public Media Company
- Online News Association
- National Association of Hispanic Publications
- AAN
- Center for Cooperative Media
- Institute for Rural Journalism
- American Journalism Project
- Solutions Journalism Network
- National Trust for Local News
- Local Media Consortium
- Report Local
- Public Knowledge
- PEN America
- National Writers Union
- Trusting News
- Media and Democracy Project
- Military Veterans in Journalism
- The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- Poynter
- League of Women Voters of Washington
- National Federation of Community Broadcasters
- Mid-Atlantic Community Papers Association
- Wisconsin Newspaper Association
- Kansas Press Association
- Arizona Media 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 Group
- The JOLT News Organizations
- Nutfield Publishing
- Oxford Free Press
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 serve low and moderate income communities, and more.
