Newspapers owned by small, independent groups — often families or businesses invested in their local communities — are shuttering at an alarming pace compared to those owned by large investment ...

A bevy of research has documented the connection between strong journalism and better democratic self-governance, such as increased voter turnout, lower corruption, more efficient spending and greater ...

Across the United States, scholars are working to preserve the history of the Black press before the brittle pages are lost ...

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 ...

As proposals to help save local journalism gathered dust in Congress and mostly fizzled in state legislatures over the last year, 136 more newspapers closed, according to a new report. More than half ...