is your neighborhood reporter for Flour Bluff and the South Side. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — In a display of what local journalism is all about, a 20-year employee of a local newspaper in Beeville is now ...

The front page of an early October 2025 edition of The Keene Sentinel features stories about city elections, the ongoing drought in New Hampshire and two Medicare Advantage providers leaving the state ...

Last August, police in Kansas executed questionable search warrants on the offices of the Marion County Record, a weekly newspaper that has been publishing since 1869, along with the homes of the ...

Welcome to Up for Debate. Each week, Conor Friedersdorf rounds up timely conversations and solicits reader responses to one thought-provoking question. Later, he publishes some thoughtful replies.

They say all politics is local. So where’s the local news coverage this election year? I’ve been traveling to what are called “news deserts” in Super Tuesday states to hear about the business models ...

Why did your hometown newspaper vanish while the next town over kept theirs? This isn’t bad luck — it’s a systemic pattern. Since 2005, the United States has lost over one-third of its local ...

The recent decision by The Washington Post and Los Angeles Times to skip endorsing a presidential candidate has put the issue of media trust in the spotlight — and it underscores just how differently ...

Dashed hopes and slashed jobs define the local news industry in far too many corners of the country. In Atlanta, Andrew Morse, the president and publisher of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, has ...