Zak Podmore did not bring down a corrupt mayor. He did not discover secret torture sites or expose abuses by a powerful religious institution. But there was something about this one article he wrote ...

Despite declining public attention to local news, many Americans express positive feelings about their local news media. For instance, most U.S. adults (85%) believe local news outlets are at least ...

The digital era is making its mark on local news. Nearly as many Americans today say they prefer to get their local news online as say they prefer to do so through the television set, according to a ...