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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Philanthropies pledge $500 million to address local news crisis
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/07/1198029284/macarthur-knight-journalism-news-press-forward

* severe financial pressure
* "Press Forward," initiative seeks to nurture, sustain new models for funding journalism
* >20 charitable organizations  led by MacArthur Foundation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Foundation
*  1/5 of U.S. lives in so-called "news deserts" w. little/no reliable coverage of major local developments

https://persagen.com >> search: MacArthur Foundation"

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews
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015acaea | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 @c17393bb 

Good but not nearly to enough. They need public funding.

#LocalNews #Journalism
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Addendum 2

Language Barriers Complicate the Geography of News Deserts
Lack of access to local bilingual news isolates people who speak little or no English
https://prospect.org/culture/2023-09-08-language-barriers-news-deserts

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Addendum 2 cont'd

* news deserts expanding: 2 decades ago U.S. had 9,000 newspapers; 2019: 6,700
*of U.S.' 3,143 counties, 200 have no newspaper/other sources credible news
* Half these counties only have 1 newspaper and 2/3 do not have daily newspaper
* losses especially glaring in Midwest, East

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Addendum 2 cont'd 2/

* lack of access to credible news facilitates spread of disinformation
* drives up political social polarization
* erodes trust in news media
* can exacerbate the digital divide between residents w. good internet access who can seek out diverse sources of news & people w. poor/no connectivity

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation
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Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Addendum 2 cont'd 3/

* residents who speak very little/no English who live in communities dominated by local news outlets that only provide news & information in English confront another serious problem
* they live in linguistic news deserts

#NewsMedia #journalism #LocalNews #FourthEstate #IndependentJournalism #LocalNews #NewsDeserts #multiculturalism #DigitalRights #HumanRights #democracy #disinformation