News Deserts are rural and urban communities with limited access to credible news and information. As industries evolve, newspapers are facing a widespread loss and grow larger in size every week. As a result, journalists are losing their jobs, and people need to be made aware.
Why are Newspapers Important?
Newspapers offer the most reliable information. Newspapers help inform communities about local events, provides insight into current events, and incorporate puzzles, novels, and comedy. In addition, newspapers steer away from an opinionated stance on a controversial topic.
Who is Affected by News Deserts?
Newspapers create a geographic identity and build a community. Stories and editorials were a way of contacting the community members to be active and engaged.
Over time, small and isolated communities have become incapable of affording news and media coverage. Access to news information allowed residents to debate important issues, influence policy and politics, and build trust in our institutions.
Communities without guided decision-making cannot reach their full potential. Public journalism serves society as a confrontation to significant issues.
Community member involvement decreases when there is no coverage, and so does voter turnout. The poor, uneducated, minorities and isolated people are the most vulnerable to news deserts.
A fifth of the population lives in a news desert. Politically, economically, and journalistically, the nation has become severely divided. The lack of affordable and accessible local news, which holds society together, has broken.
Solutions to News Deserts
1. Identifying what states are considered news deserts and what states are at risk of becoming one.
2. Implementing policies at a state and national level that addresses disparities and availability.
Taxpayer support historically benefits news organizations. Meta and Google compensate news organizations for their content. Grants and philanthropic funding are solely for-profit and nonprofit news organizations. Funding specific reporting projects that include education, criminal justice, health, and global organizations.
3. Reestablish journalistic practices.
Nonprofit groups, traditional media, and universities are stepping up to provide journalism coverage to isolated areas.
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