Re-examining the local journalism crisis
Kristen Hare has been reporting individual cases of newsroom cutbacks since early in the pandemic; The Tow Center’s Cutback Tracker depends on much of her excellent work. Now, in a new project for Poynter Recovering the News Hare hopes to focus on solutions to the local news problem.
The project’s title hints at some of its goals: promoting recovery and health among beleaguered news outlets and “re-covering” the news as in, covering the news crisis a second time, with an attentive eye. “Every time something would come up that I didn’t have time to cover, I drop something in my notes to come back to later,” Hare says. “