Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism

Local news in global decline - Part 2

13 June 2019
An Indian auto-rickshaw driver reads a Hindi newspaper with a headline about the conviction of Bollywood star Salman Khan in New Delhi, India, April 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Local and regional newspapers have dwindled all across the U.S. as print advertising revenues have shrunk. But the U.S. isn't alone - there is a local news crisis happening all around the world.

In the second part of our series on the decline in local news with our partners at the Index on Censorship, a look at the problem in India, Poland and Argentina. In these countries, traditional local news outlets face a host of problems: from populist governments to WhatsApp groups to advertising migrating online.

 

Joining the program:

Producer: Edom Kassaye
Visual editor: Megan Smaltz
Studio production: Trevor Hook

Monitoring press freedom and international affairs from Mid-Missouri Public Radio and the Missouri School of Journalism.
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