by LNIC | Sep 10, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
This post is part of a series of discussions with LNIC researchers. The interview was conducted by Afrooz Mosallaei, a doctoral student in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University and was edited for length. Q1: Tell me about the focus of your...
by Benjamin Toff | Sep 1, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
The Local News Impact Consortium (LNIC) is a journalism support organization that seeks to bolster the growing research community dedicated to studying the health of local information ecosystems. This research community is vast but often siloed in newsrooms, across...
by Damon Kiesow | Jan 17, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
Across the country, academics, journalists and researchers are mapping their state’s news and information ecosystems. Their methodologies differ, but such initiatives seek to make sense of the splintered reality of where people are getting their local news and...
by Benjamin Toff | Jan 10, 2025 | LNIC News & Events
Philanthropic organizations trying to meaningfully fund local news are running up against challenges that another group — local news researchers — have been grappling with for some time. As currently structured, research into the state of local news in the United...
by Damon Kiesow | Jun 10, 2024 | LNIC News & Events
Matthew Weber of Rutgers University opens up the Local News Impact Consortium meeting on March 25 at Duke University. (Photo by Damon Kiesow.) A group of academics at six journalism schools around the country formed the Local News Impact Consortium (LNIC) with the...
