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Why some towns lose local news — and others don’tResearch identifies five key drivers — ranging from racial disparity to market forces — that determine which towns lose their papers and which ones beat the odds. By Abby Youran Qin. |
“Press Gazette analysis of Business Insider traffic using Similarweb data shows a fall from around 160 million visitors per month in 2020 to around 80 million visitors per month in the first half of 2025.”
CNN / Brian StelterAre people paying attention to Trump’s Truth Social posts? →New data from The Washington Post finds Trump posted 2,262 times to Truth Social in his first 132 days back in office.
That’s “more than three times the number of tweets he sent during the same period of his first presidency.” A news site owner says one link Trump posted over the weekend generated fewer than 5,000 pageviews.
The New York Times / Kate Conger and Tiffany HsuFTC investigates ad groups and watchdogs that call attention to hateful content online →“The inquiries include the agency’s previously reported investigation of Media Matters…At least a dozen other organizations received such letters, three of the people said. The groups include organizations that help brands choose how to position ads across the internet and watchdog groups that have sought to call attention to hateful content online.”
The Guardian / Rory CarrollThe most dangerous place in the U.K. to be a reporter →“Journalists in Northern Ireland routinely face attacks and death threats from paramilitary and organized crime groups that act with impunity, according to Amnesty International…It documented more than 70 attacks and threats since 2019 but found there were no prosecutions for threats from paramilitary groups, the most significant source of the intimidation.”
Minnesota Reformer / Madison McVanThe Minnesota Star Tribune offers employees buyouts →“Every media company in the country is going through tremendous transformation right now in the face of unprecedented challenges and new opportunities. We’re no different,” publisher Steve Grove wrote. The company has been hiring for digital teams; 16% of the staff has been hired in the past year.
The Guardian / Emine Saner“Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!” The creatives and academics rejecting AI — at work and at home →“I’m infuriated that you can’t turn off the AI overviews in Google search,” [April Doty, an audiobook narrator] says. “Whenever you look anything up now you’re basically torching the planet.” She has started to use other search engines. “But, more and more, we’re surrounded by it, and there’s no off switch. That makes me angry.” Where she still can, she says, “I’m opting out of using AI.”
The Hollywood Reporter / Chris GardnerThe “end of the celebrity tabloid era” as McClatchy closes four titles and lays off entire staffs →“Despite the best efforts of many of our talented colleagues, we have been unable to develop a profitable business model for four of our magazine titles. First for Women, In Touch, Life & Style and Closer will publish their final editions between June 20 and 27.”
Columbia Journalism Review / Will BunchSome NYC teens have a new hobby: the school paper →“Journalism for All has raised $3 million to train teachers in thirty high schools around the city to lead journalism classes and start student newspapers this fall. The coalition of advocates from the nonprofit world and academia is hoping the program will help jump-start the moribund state of high school journalism. From 2011 to 2021, the proportion of U.S. public high schools with a print or online student newspaper dropped from 64% to 45%, according to national survey data cited by Peter Bobkowski, the Knight Chair in Scholastic Journalism at Kent State University.”
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