Daily Archives: June 20, 2017

Research shows that local news reporters are working harder than ever – and they’re loving it

Across the United States, reporters and editors at local newspapers are working longer hours, in smaller newsrooms and with fewer opportunities for advancement.

They’re also optimistic about the future of local news, and their futures in it, a recent study in the Columbia Journalism Review has found.

Damian Radcliffe, the Carolyn S. Chambers Professor in Journalism at the University of Oregon and co-author of the study “Life at small-market newspapers: A survey of over 400 journalists,” says that optimism stems…

Listening to community members essential, say Indigenous journalists sharing industry experiences at local news conference

While working at a weekly community newspaper, reporter Wawmeesh Hamilton was told that First Nations stories did not foster enough interest to earn a spot on the front page.

The directive came from the newspaper’s publisher where he worked at the time.

Hamilton recalls being offended as a child by a front page story featuring a non-Indigenous woman dressed as Pocahontas, holding a wine bottle.

When rural newspapers fall prey to predatory ownership, local content goes fast: new research

Small market newspapers are being stripped of local content by “predatory” chain ownership groups, a new study suggests.

John Miller, a professor emeritus at the Ryerson School of Journalism, compared local content in the Northumberland Today, the daily newspaper published in Cobourg, Ont., with local news published by its predecessors. The Cobourg Daily Star and the Port Hope Evening Guide amalgamated with the weekly Colborne Chronicle in 2009 to form Northumberland Today.