local reporting
Community news coverage
Local reporting is journalism focused on a specific geographic community—a city, town, county, or neighborhood.
Local reporters cover municipal government, school boards, police activity, local businesses, and community events that larger outlets ignore.
The decline of local newspapers has created "news deserts" where no journalist monitors local institutions: Local reporting is how corruption gets caught before it spreads.
- newspaperPrinted periodical of current events
- journalistNews profession practitioner
- beatRhythmic pulse or strike
- communityCollective of connected people
- scoopFirst-reported story
deadline · byline · editor · newsroom · city desk · city hall · crime · obituaries · town council · investigative · public records · police blotter · sources · quotes · news tip · press pass · man on the street · front page
- Pulitzersfiction, biography, poetry prize, drama, public service
- Journalism AwardsPulitzer Prize, Peabody Award, Pulitzers, Peabody
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