Across the country, the kinds of budget cuts that have decimated newspapers over the years are now slicing into local TV news stations. A trend of TV news layoffs “is only just the beginning,” one ...

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Local governments are uniquely able to combat growing national polarization, according to a new study out Wednesday from the nonprofit research organization CivicPulse and Carnegie Corporation of New ...

Find more updated survey data about local news in our “Local News Fact Sheet” here. Local news topics range from useful daily information like weather and traffic, to civic information about local ...

A plan to build back better. Over the past decade, the most useful construct for explaining the crisis that is playing out at the intersection of American media and democracy has been that of the ...

The Pew-Knight Initiative supports new research on how Americans absorb civic information, form beliefs and identities, and engage in their communities. Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, ...