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Despite declining public attention to local news, many Americans express positive feelings about their local news media. For instance, most U.S. adults (85%) believe local news outlets are at least ...

Local news topics range from useful daily information like weather and traffic, to civic information about local government, crime and the economy, to cultural news about the arts and sports.

The term “news desert” implies that, somewhere, there is a news oasis—some pocket of the country where local journalism is thriving.