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An in-depth Medill study identified numerous profound challenges to news organizations as the industry struggles to adapt to the digital age

The local news crisis has metastasized like a slow-moving cancer coursing through the bloodstream of enclaves from suburbia to rural America.

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AUBURN — Community Foundation DeKalb County executive director Tanya Young has been selected as a member of the 2024 class of the Mutz Philanthropic Leadership Institute.

LIGONIER — Jazmin Herrera, of the Community Foundation of Noble County, has been selected as a member of the 2024 class of the Mutz Philanthropic Leadership Institute. Launched by Indiana

The Mutz Institute provides a leadership training experience to skill-up professionals serving in board and executive roles across Indiana.

The loss of local newspapers accelerated in 2023 to an average of 2.5 per week, leaving more than 200 counties as “news deserts” and meaning that more than half of all U.S. counties now have limited access to reliable local news and information.

Local news in the U.S. has fallen further into a crisis this year, with an average of 2.5 publications shutting down every week and journalists numbering ever fewer, according to a report released Thursday by the Medill School of Journalism. The State of Local News report by Medill’s Local News Initiative tallied more than 130...

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in Little Rock and the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette are raising the price of digital replica subscriptions to $39 a month, starting Sept. 1.

The Subscriber Engagement Index — an initiative born out of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and the Spiegel Research Center — promises answers to the enduring question: For what information will the public pay? Offering distinctive, original content — rather than commoditized content that can be found at any number of other news sources — appears critical.