Issues of three newspapers Douglass edited are available digitally. Fredrick Douglass is known as a preeminent abolitionist, speaker and author, but he also had the title of newspaper editor. Now, ...

On the front page of a recent issue of the Newport Miner, three stories captured daily life in a small Washington town: local schools embracing artificial intelligence, citywide sewer maintenance and ...

Medill’s State of Local News 2025 report once again captures the changing shape of America’s local news landscape — and the expanding concern over news deserts. The report, which is ...

Research is getting easier as more resources have been digitized – from volumes of history books to newspapers and photographs, such as The Cincinnati Enquirer Photo Archive being digitized by the ...

Some 136 newspapers in the United States have closed in the past year, news deserts are expanding and web traffic to the nation's top newspapers has dropped markedly this decade, according to a report ...

WINSLOW, Ariz. — It’s no secret that small-town newspapers are struggling to survive in the digital age. Across the United States, hundreds of local papers have folded in recent years, leaving behind ...

Is any newspaper better than a news desert? Steve Strickbine thinks the answer to that question is yes. I recently published a story, “National Trust for Local News sells 21 newspapers to a company ...

In an era defined by constant connectivity and digital overload, the traditional newspaper continues to hold its ground, evolving in form but not in purpose, outgrowing the "paper" in its name. Even ...

This story was originally published by AP News. Dozens of communities in the Midwest and West learned Thursday they had lost their newspapers after an Illinois-based publisher announced it would ...

The Forest Lake Times is moving to Stillwater. The weekly newspaper, published by Adams Publishing Group, has decided to consolidate the Forest Lake office with the office of the Stillwater Gazette, ...