Abstract
Envisioning an expanded Corporation for Public Broadcasting to transform local public service newsrooms
Highlights
The decimation of local news is an urgently worrying situation, as democracies need strong journalism to thrive
The shrinking of local newsrooms can exacerbate the risk of “data voids”, as coined by danah boyd and Michael Golebiewski, when good information is not available via online search and instead users find “falsehoods, misinformation, or disinformation”. (Misinformation is false content unintentionally shared; disinformation is false content designed to cause harm and intentionally shared.) For example, in 2019, the Tow Center at the Columbia Journalism School documented 450 websites masquerading as local news outlets, with titles like the East Michigan News, Hickory Sun, and Grand Canyon Times
The growing popularity of social media as news sources or conduits to news sources—more than half of American adults today get at least some news from social media—compounds the problem by making it easier for disinformation to spread
Summary
The decimation of local news is an urgently worrying situation, as democracies need strong journalism to thrive. Together with the Colorado Sun, a public benefit corporation and new digital news site, the National Trust recently purchased twenty-four Colorado newsrooms, to keep them locally owned and working in the public’s interest.
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