{"id":4410,"date":"2025-09-29T07:00:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4410"},"modified":"2025-09-22T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T19:27:31","slug":"cities-need-to-step-up-in-support-of-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cities-need-to-step-up-in-support-of-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Cities Need to Step Up in Support of Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Local news outlets are facing a severe crisis, with declining resources and journalist layoffs impacting communities nationwide. The loss of local news coverage leaves residents without essential information about local government, schools, and neighborhoods. Federal cuts to public media exacerbate the problem. Cities are uniquely positioned to address this issue by actively supporting local journalism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Local News Is on the Brink. Here\u2019s How Cities Can Help.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.today\/2025.09.18-164457\/https:\/\/nextcity.org\/urbanist-news\/local-news-is-on-the-brink-how-cities-can-help\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/archive.today\/2025.09.18-164457\/https:\/\/nextcity.org\/urbanist-news\/local-news-is-on-the-brink-how-cities-can-help<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9781733623780\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local news outlets are facing a severe crisis, with declining resources and journalist layoffs impacting communities nationwide. The loss of local news coverage leaves residents without essential information about local government, schools, and neighborhoods. Federal cuts to public media exacerbate the problem. Cities are uniquely positioned to address this issue by actively supporting local journalism&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/cities-need-to-step-up-in-support-of-local-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Cities Need to Step Up in Support of Local News&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,65,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4412,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4410\/revisions\/4412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}