#local-journalism

#local-journalism

Wednesday's budget discussions resurfaced tensions over police funding, particularly after a few councilors threw around the word "defunding" to describe the shift of an extra $2 million from the Portland Police Bureau's budget to the parks bureau. Councilors Angelita Morillo and Candace Avalos chastised their colleagues who used a boogeyman approach to drum up public fear over the move. "I'm not interested in slogans that are just trying to make political tension out of what is a fiscal responsibility," Avalos asserted.

"First, do no harm." The risk of losing visibility on platforms like Facebook and Google, essential for information access, outweighs potential funding gains for local news.

Well, it's not a threat, that's a penalty that is in the Communications Act, and if you don't... trust in the national mainstream media is at an absolute low... the agenda that I'm trying to run at the FCC is to empower those actual local television stations to serve the public interest.

The Houston Landing raised $20 million from various supporters but announced its shuttering after less than two years due to unsustainable financial challenges.

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John Thornton transformed local journalism by founding The Texas Tribune and the American Journalism Project, pioneering sustainable models for digital newsrooms against a backdrop of decline in legacy media.

The Cortland Standard occupied a beautiful and imposing brick building in the center of downtown. As a budding journalist, I found it a miracle amidst closing newspapers.

A newly formed local group is looking to acquire The Press Democrat, a regional newspaper in Sonoma County, away from the large Hearst Corporation's interests.

The Lincoln Eagle is a monthly publication written and edited by local individuals expressing views not typically found in mainstream media.