To understand the state of local journalism in the United States, you have to start with the bad news. Local newspapers are shutting down, and many local television stations have just a few reporters ...

A group of journalism advocates from the nonprofit Rebuild Local News and the tech platform Muck Rack say they have counted — for the first time — how many journalists remain in the United States. The ...

As proposals to help save local journalism gathered dust in Congress and mostly fizzled in state legislatures over the last year, 136 more newspapers closed, according to a new report. More than half ...