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Is local news on the cusp of a renaissance?

  • Written by Damian Radcliffe, Caroline S. Chambers Professor in Journalism, University of Oregon
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It’s not an easy time to be a journalist in the United States. Since 2000, nearly half of newsroom jobs – more than 20,000 of them – have disappeared.

Rubbing salt into the wounds, CareerCast named “newspaper reporter” the worst of 200 jobs in 2016 for the third successive year. (Pest control worker...

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