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The University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism looks at the growing gaps in news coverage left by the closures of local newspapers around the country.  The report is available<strong> </strong></span><a href="https://www.usnewsdeserts.com/reports/"><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);"><strong>here</strong></span></a><span style="color:rgb(32,31,30);">. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/09/07/macarthur-foundation-local-news/"><span style="color:#4472C4;"><strong>MacArthur Foundation to Give</strong></span></a><br><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/09/07/macarthur-foundation-local-news/"><span style="color:#4472C4;"><strong> $500 million to Local News Effort</strong></span></a></p><p><span style="color:#2A2A2A;">A coalition of philanthropies led by the MacArthur Foundation is offering $500 million as a lifeline to struggling local news operations, <i>The Washington Post</i> reported. It is the largest single philanthropic commitment to journalism to date. </span></p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/06/29/news-deserts-newspapers-democracy/"><strong>American Newspapers Keep Closing and ‘News Deserts’ Keep Growing</strong></a></p><p><i>(June 29, 2022) Washington Post </i>media critic Margaret Sullivan writes that one-third of U.S. newspapers will that existed two decades ago will be out of business by 2025, according to <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/new-deserts-presskit/?fj=1"><strong>research</strong></a> made public from Northwestern University’s Medill School. </p><p>Link to media release about the study and related multimedia downloads <a href="https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2022/06/new-deserts-presskit/?fj=1"><strong>here</strong></a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/01/23/media-sullivan-evan-smith-texas-tribune/"><strong>Nonprofit Newsrooms a Promising New Model for Local News, Writes Margaret Sullivan</strong></a></p><p><i>(Jan. 22, 2022) Washington Post</i> media columnist Margaret Sullivan writes that nonprofit newsrooms like the Texas Tribune, show promise as a prospective new model for struggling local news. </p><p><a href="https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/a-family-run-iowa-newspaper-gets-the-spotlight/"><strong>Family-run Iowa Newspaper Spotlighted in PBS Doc About Local Journalism</strong></a></p><p>A documentary about the struggles of local journalism – think newspapers that cover the daily news of a town like Storm Lake, Iowa (population: 10,000) – airs the week of Nov. 15 on PBS. <i>The Storm Lake Times</i>, the subject of the film, is the second smallest news organization ever to win a Pulitzer Prize. It fills a vital need in this rural community.  <a href="https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2021/a-family-run-iowa-newspaper-gets-the-spotlight/">Poynter</a> has a write-up on the project, as does <a href="https://www.houstonpress.com/arts/preview-storm-lake-documentary-on-pbs-12302447"><i>The Houston Press</i></a>. </p><p><a href="https://www.niemanlab.org/2020/06/nonprofit-newsrooms-are-increasingly-dedicating-themselves-to-local-news/"><strong>Nonprofit Newsrooms Increasingly Filling Local News Void</strong></a></p><p>The latest Institute for Nonprofit News survey, known as the INN Index, found that a growing portion of nonprofit newsrooms are dedicated to local public affairs, Neiman Labs reported. </p><p><a href="https://nyti.ms/2KJ0ZWY"><strong>When Texas Border Town Lost Its Only Paper, Local Start-up Filled Void</strong></a></p><p>When the Southwestern border town of Del Rio, Texas, lost its only newspaper, a local man stepped in with an investment in print, turning his event-oriented website into a news outlet with a print edition. 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