April 20, 2021
Nat Geo and the
New York Times can’t tell you. It’s the journalism that covers what’s planned for your street, and what’s happening in your schools. Local journalism impacts your daily life.
Yet, community-based journalism is facing existential challenges.
Here’s What’s Happened
Even before the pandemic, revenues supporting local coverage had been declining for years, and the lockdown cut any remaining advertising revenue by 42% at local newspapers across the country. In the last 15 years, about 1,800 newspapers in the U.S. closed, and there are now almost 25% fewer reporters available to tell you what’s happening. Here in Corvallis, one daily cut its staff in half, then dismissed their longtime editor.
Jennifer Moody, Oregon State University, Orange Media Network
Rob Priewe, LBCC, Journalism Instructor
Moderators include Jillian St. Jacques, OSU Journalism Instructor; Cara Nixon, Contributing Journalist at
The Barometer and
The Corvallis Advocate and President of City Club of Corvallis.
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