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The day in August 2005 when I idled into Gillette, Wyoming, began a years-long education in public trust in journalism.That day, a curious neighbor stepped out of his townhome to…

The chance to oust President Trump or support him in the 2020 general election will bring voters to the polls. But what happens once they get past that first contest…

There’s nothing short of a crisis in our state capitals.Statehouse reporting corps have decreased dramatically in the past decade, and, too often, the journalists who remain must answer the call…

When local journalism declines, so does government transparency and civic engagement

As editor and publisher of the Todd County Standard, a weekly in Elkton, Kentucky, I once ran a story that asked farmers to attend a very important meeting on agricultural…

Most editors get lots of feedback from readers—through calls, emails, or comments in social media.For the past two years, though, The [Springfield, Illinois] State Journal-Register has had a special group…

I come from a fading industrial town—Albion, Michigan. In 1985 I would read the Chicago Tribune on how great things were in America and wonder which America it was writing…

In covering the local election season in Dare County, North Carolina–best known as the home of the Outer Banks–journalists can’t be accused of paying too much attention to an unending…

Many post-election observers have lambasted the national news media, the so-called coastal media elites, for missing the breadth of support for Donald Trump among white working- and lower middle-class voters…

Being a political animal, one of my first thoughts the morning after the election was, “Who’s going to run for President now?”You can rest assured that there are a dozen or…