Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack report that 70% of counties are severely undercovered — employing below-average numbers of local journalist equivalents — and large number of counties have hardly any coverage of education and health.
MIAMI and BROOKLYN — The 2026 Local Journalist Index, a landmark annual study by Muck Rack, the AI communications platform, and Rebuild Local News, the leading nonpartisan organization advancing public policies to strengthen community news, reveals that the shortage of local journalists persists and also finds a dramatic lack of education and health care coverage in most communities.
The study used Muck Rack’s expansive journalist database and a new analysis of 4.2 million articles published from January through March 2026.
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