Local News

The approach the Chicago News Cooperative is ‘trying to use journalism to create communities organized around an interest in the news.’

TBD’s community engagement team listens—and responds—in a city where everyone is talking: Washington, D.C.

Bell’s public officials went from having no coverage to an onslaught of media attention after the Los Angeles Times uncovered officials’ outsized pay. Here, reporters interview the only City Council…

‘Although the challenges facing this Midwest region are primarily economic, Changing Gears’ mandate is more than to just tell business stories.’

‘As beat writers know, it’s in doing these routine stories that they sniff out situations worthy of deeper digging.’

As readers on the Web, we may filter out ‘perspectives that might challenge our assumptions and preconceptions about what’s important and newsworthy.’

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.’