Local News - Columbia Journalism Review

When I joined as a political writer, Toledo’s famed daily was known for its ambitious local newsroom. Now it’s preparing to publish its final issue.
The Michigan Chronicle’s Sam Robinson on covering a closely watched election cycle from within.
I was a fifty-year newspaper veteran and a journalism professor. Then I joined the Salt Lake Tribune as a junior editor.
“At the end of the day, if someone’s going to pay you for content, you say: Well, how much are you going to pay me?” Jim VandeHei, the chief executive, said of his company’s deal with OpenAI. “If that payment feels like it’s a fair transaction price, you say yes.”
A first-time editor in chief reflects on a startup that didn’t work.
When Antonio Sánchez lost his job—and Oregon lost its only Spanish news station—he started his own daily YouTube broadcast. The show now reaches tens of thousands.
The Montclair Pod brings audio journalism to small-town obsessions.
And now for something completely different—a site with personality big enough for the city it covers.
After a historic earthquake, Tony Frangie Mawad was among the Venezuelan journalists who connected people in need to those who could help.
Local reporters are struggling to get answers from the politicians they cover.
The Baltimore Sun swipes at Wes Moore, and a seasoned reporter resigns. Plus: Holding the police accountable, and the grim reality of wellness treatments.
Coyote, a new media collective in the Bay Area, is irreverent, human, and unabashedly political.
How Graham Platner’s Senate campaign vexed the national press.
Local journalists feel the doors closing to public officials who “are taking their cue from President Trump.”
The Faustian bargain of embedding with the Israeli military in Gaza.
The voice of journalism, since 1961