This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. When Michael Shapiro started TAPinto, you couldn’t miss him ...

For the past 25 years, there have been two primary ways to finance the growth of local news growth: private equity and foundation grant-making. The first, of course, has fed the consolidation of ...

The report, now in its 10th year, draws on two decades of data, starting with 2005. It tracks 8,000 American local news outlets, including more than 5,400 newspapers, almost 700 standalone digital ...