Marquette University will be at the forefront of local journalism research in the coming months.
Patrick Johnson, associate professor in the College of Communication, will be leading a project to map out the entirety of the local news ecosystem in the state of Wisconsin. It is a project that Johnson said he is passionate about and is excited to get off the ground.
The presence of local news in the United States has been rapidly declining in recent decades. According to a report from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, more than 3,200 print newspapers have stopped publishing since 2005. That is equivalent to about two newspapers per week. The report found 206 U.S. counties without any local news sources, with another 1,561 counties only having one source.
Johnson said that Marquette’s revamped journalism program is designed to shine a light on these challenges and educate students on the importance of modernizing local news environments.
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