After ‘crowdsourcing’ worked to expand reporting, The News-Press reached out to nearby residents to form Team Watchdog.

Citizen journalism is here to stay. But in the rush to embrace new media we risk destroying the soul of traditional reporting.

A former editorial writer examines why the inquisitive, argumentative and forceful voice of journalists is quieter these days.

Two reporters encounter roadblocks in telling the flamboyant story of Bob Bullock.

Mary Nesbitt is managing director of the Readership Institute at the Media Management Center and associate dean for curriculum and professional excellence at Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.…

‘Two new content departments—News & Information and Enterprise—focus on producing unique local content for print and online.’

On the zoned local editorial pages of The Dallas Morning News, people from the community ‘think locally … tell us something we don’t know’ and are ‘persuasive.’

‘… hyperlocal news sites like ours are bringing the personality of a community to the news by letting residents have a much more active role in dictating what is news.’

‘… I returned to Charleston convinced that we do a disservice to our readers when we think local reporting only happens when we stay close to home.’

‘Judging from our three studies, the future of America’s local newspapers is dim.’