A total of 127 newspapers closed last year, while the 81 digital sites gained was the most in any year since the Medill Local News Initiative at Northwestern University began measuring that ...

Counties in grey have at least one other non-digital local news source available; Map: Axios Visuals An uptick in newspaper closures this year has left more than half of the nation's 3,143 ...

report getting news on local government and politics at similar rates. Americans’ sources for local political news The most common sources Americans turn to for local political news include friends ...