{"id":70504,"date":"2020-04-24T10:33:41","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=70504"},"modified":"2020-04-24T10:35:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T14:35:58","slug":"why-local-news-outlets-may-be-among-this-pandemics-victims-sue-ellen-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2020\/04\/24\/why-local-news-outlets-may-be-among-this-pandemics-victims-sue-ellen-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Why local news outlets may be among this pandemic\u2019s victims [Sue Ellen Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@sueellen.isacksen\/why-local-news-outlets-may-be-among-this-pandemics-victims-2a722736d11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Why local news outlets may be among this pandemic\u2019s victims<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from medium.com by Sue Ellen Christian<br \/>\nThe healthy functioning of our communities depends on the survival of our local news systems. Here\u2019s how to start resuscitating close-to-home journalism,\u00a0<em class=\"hs\">now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong class=\"ha ip\">Just as we thought it couldn\u2019t get worse for the survival of local news outlets, it has. Covid-19 is attacking what was left of the advertising base for local news outlets.<\/strong>\u00a0Local retailers are the foundational advertisers for online news outlets. With shelter-in-place orders enacted throughout the country, retailers are struggling to pay the rent; low on their priorities for financial solvency is buying ads in a local newspaper, online news outlet, local television news show or community magazine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Furthermore, those same retailers, such as book stores and restaurants, where single-sale print copies of local magazines and newspapers are often available, aren\u2019t open, further hurting the already meager revenue streams of local news providers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>New York has the\u00a0<em class=\"hs\">Times.<\/em>\u00a0Los Angeles has its\u00a0<em class=\"hs\">Times<\/em>. The nation\u2019s capital has the\u00a0<em class=\"hs\">Post.<\/em> We in smaller and mid-size communities not only deserve our close-to-home updates and information, our local democracies rely on it.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nDaily digital and print news outlets in particular offer citizens a public service: News about the schools our children attend, how our taxes are spent, what is happening in court systems and park districts and local elections. They fight for public documents to be released and public meetings to remain open \u2014 to be sure, all vital parts to democracy. But these outlets also offer our communities a reflection of ourselves.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why local news outlets may be among this pandemic\u2019s victims &#8212; from medium.com by Sue Ellen Christian The healthy functioning of our communities depends on the survival of our local news systems. Here\u2019s how to start resuscitating close-to-home journalism,\u00a0now. Excerpt: Just as we thought it couldn\u2019t get worse for the survival of local news outlets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,112,359,25,385,480,212,321],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corporate-business-world","category-health","category-journalism","category-michigan","category-society","category-surviving","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70504"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70508,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70504\/revisions\/70508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}