Keller @ Large: Northeastern Professor Says Local Journalism Is Still ‘Alive And Well In Massachusetts’

BOSTON (CBS) — Early subsequent month, the Gannett Newspapers will shut down the print editions of 19 weekly papers in jap Massachusetts. So the place does that depart native journalism within the state?

“I believe it’s fairly important as a result of Gannett weeklies are the best way that many, many communities in jap Massachusetts get their native information. Now I believe that their determination to maneuver away from an emphasis on print and say ‘please subscribe on digital,’ that may be a wonderfully tremendous factor to do besides that they’d already hollowed out these papers for essentially the most half. Already these had been just about what you’ll name ghost newspapers with little or no native information in them. As [Jon Keller] talked about, many of the native reporters are being assigned to regional beats. The top of print, in plenty of these communities, is de facto the least of it,” stated Northeastern journalism professor Dan Kennedy.

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He stated individuals can nonetheless discover native information, they only must look elsewhere.

“I used to be astonished at how a lot is definitely on the market. I knew about plenty of it however there’s greater than I even thought. I do suppose that native information is alive and effectively in Massachusetts,” stated Kennedy.

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Northeastern has compiled some sources right here.

The Provincetown Impartial is one among two newspapers serving that area of the Cape.  “They’ve this actually attention-grabbing hybrid, the hybrid of print and digital, they nonetheless are in a position to appeal to native promoting, and it’s a hybrid of for-profit and non-profit. It’s a for-profit paper however they’ve a non-profit arm that pays for sure varieties of accountability journalism locally. It’s a extremely promising setup, they hope to stand up to twenty reporters in a couple of years. We’re actually hoping for the most effective from them,” stated Kennedy.

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