The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press today announced $1.25 million in new funding from Press Forward, a national initiative to reimagine local news. With this grant, the Reporters ...

A version of this story appeared in today’s The Poynter Report newsletter. A new report drawing on a fresh database, released this morning, estimates there has been a 75% decline in the number of ...

A new report maps where local philanthropy is available to support local journalism, where it’s not and where it’s desperately needed. This should help advance the conversation of what must be done to ...

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 ...

Earlier this month, Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism released its 2025 “The State of Local News Report.” The writers presented the 2025 numbers within the context of the trends they’ve ...

One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism ...