Sophie Culpepper

If you’re trying to get a handle on evidence from academic research about the state of local news, it’s hard to know where to start. The research is scattered — across disciplines from political sc...

When Minneapolis became ground zero for the Trump administration’s unprecedented federal immigration crackdown, its local news institutions were, once again, on the front lines of a global story. A...

On Tuesday, ProPublica rolled out a redesign that revamped its homepage and aims to make its work “more recognizable and distinct” across platforms from Instagram to Apple News. The redesign goes b...

“Will Pittsburgh become America’s most important city without a newspaper?” Josh asked in January. The answer, we learned Tuesday, is no: The Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, the nonprofi...

Every September since 2012, thousands of volunteers have come together around a shared goal: getting more Americans registered to vote. They’ve channeled attention and energy into a single day, dub...

Paying the rent on a reporter’s salary isn’t easy anywhere these days. But on the Outer Cape, it’s almost impossible. Massachusetts has some of the highest housing costs in the country. The problem...

The Guardian has started cross-posting its weekly food newsletter, “Feast,” to Substack, where it hopes to reach new audiences. This is an experiment, according to Press Gazette’s reporting; if Fea...

To say that the staff of Nieman Lab consume more news than the average American would be an understatement. And if you’re a Nieman Lab reader, chances are you’re a news junkie like us. Most of the ...

Another billionaire-backed news organization has announced ambitions to expand into the void created by The Washington Post’s layoffs. NOTUS, a nonprofit newsroom backed by Politico founder Robert ...

“Ok I have a wild suggestion👀” was the text I got from my boyfriend on Feb. 22. Dylan wanted us to attend a “carnival” featuring the journalist/documentarian/news creator Andrew Callaghan in Medfor...

What was widely recognized as a national tragedy was also a local one. When leadership at The Washington Post laid off more than 300 journalists last month, Post Local was among the hardest-hit sec...

Tampa Bay Times journalist Lauren Peace is a fan of her local bookshop, Book and Bottle, a “bookstore with wine and a wine shop with books” (and coffee!). At one of the store’s book club events, Pe...