A UCLA and Duke University study found that reading high-information local journalism is correlated with support for funding local infrastructure. The study, conducted by Megan Mullin – a professor of ...

“Joy” may not be the first word that comes to mind when you think about journalism. In some ways, that makes sense: Journalists report emotionally exhausting stories, manage the at-times hostile ...

As journalism struggles through a now decades-long decline in economic stability and public trust, academics who study journalism have grown increasingly focused on finding ways to improve the ...

Identifying news deserts as a growing phenomenon is nothing new. Penny Abernathy of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and other scholars have been tracking the rapid national ...