Expanding News Deserts - UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media (original) (raw)
- Do You Live in a News Desert?
- Who Owns Your Newspaper?
- Where Have Newspapers Disappeared?
- Is Digital Filling the Void?
- Where are the Ethnic Voices?
- Is Public Broadcasting an Answer?
Do You Live in a News Desert?
Do You Live in a News Desert?
Use this national map to begin your own analysis. Click on any of the six tabs above to see the different maps. To delve deeper, select a state in the drop-down menu below the map.
Who Owns Your Newspaper?
Who Owns Your Newspaper?
Use this national map to begin your own analysis. Click on any of the six tabs above to see the different maps. To delve deeper, select a state in the drop-down menu below the map.
Where Have Newspapers Disappeared?
Where Have Newspapers Disappeared?
Use this national map to begin your own analysis. Click on any of the six tabs above to see the different maps. To delve deeper, select a state in the drop-down menu below the map.
Is Digital Filling the Void?
Who is Trying to Fill the Void?
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Where are the Ethnic Voices?
Where are the Ethnic Voices?
Use this national map to begin your own analysis. Click on any of the six tabs above to see the different maps. To delve deeper, select a state in the drop-down menu below the map.
Is Public Broadcasting an Answer?
Is Public Broadcasting an Answer?
Use this national map to begin your own analysis. Click on any of the six tabs above to see the different maps. To delve deeper, select a state in the drop-down menu below the map.
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Previous Reports
Learn more about the changing news landscape by reading reports produced by the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media in 2016, 2017 and 2018.
news desert
[nooz dez-ert, nyooz dez-ert]
noun
- a community, either rural or urban, with limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grassroots level.
The UNC School of Media and Journalism’s Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media has a section just for news entrepreneurs and innovators. Get practical insights from the video lessons and advice you can use from the case studies. Both the lessons and the case studies draw on extensive research into digital business models by Penny Muse Abernathy, co-author of The Strategic Digital Media Entrepreneur (Wiley Blackwell: 2018).
To survive and thrive in the digital age, community news organizations must think – and act – differently. Publishers and editors of community newspapers and digital sites can get step-by-step guidance on creating new business strategies, and learn how other news organizations are shedding costs, generating new revenue and reimagining local journalism.