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Medill study: local TV news shows early signs of a newspaper-style crisis

TVREV reports that Northwestern’s Medill Local News Initiative, in its newest State of Local News report, has for the first time analyzed local TV news production and consumption, finding consolidation and retransmission pressure echo newspapers’ earlier decline.

Why it matters. Station owners face the same ad-fragmentation and cord-cutting pressure that hollowed out newspaper newsrooms, with fewer owners meaning fewer local reporters and less consumer choice.

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