A rare bright spot in the local journalism landscape, though dependent on financial contributions. A striking stat: "20 percent of statehouse reporters worked for nonprofits in 2022, up from 6 percent in 2014. By 2022, there were almost as many statehouse reporters working for nonprofit organizations as there were working for local newspapers."
This nonprofit has newsrooms in all 50 state capitals. Is it the future of state journalism?
In late January, after wrapping up his annual State of the State speech, North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R) headed out to meet the press. Only two reporters awaited him: the North Dakota Monitor’s Amy Dalrymple and Michael Achterling. “Michael and I were the only ones that were there to ask him questions,” Dalrymple, a […]
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