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How are local news orgs doing in your area, & how do you keep up with local news? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world to c/general@lemmy.world

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Personally, I find it kind of difficult to follow local (i.e. town/city) news in my area, so I'm curious if others elsewhere are experiencing similar, or if you've had better luck somehow.

Part of this I think may be self-inflicted on my end, as I don't really watch televised news nor use corporate social media, but even when I have skimmed over those, they tended to cover larger cities & broader areas instead.

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Btw, you don't need to mention news orgs/sites you follow that might give away your location, I'm just curious about the general state of local news for you, e.g. whether they're still around via newspaper/website or if you've also found yourself in an awkward limbo where it's larger cities/region news over your own immediate area.

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[–] Aesthesiaphilia@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I live in a larger city so we have several local news options, but very little of that involves actual investigative work. It's usually just repeating talking points from the police, they mayor's office, the dept of transportation...literally just talking points that whatever organization gave to the news, and then they repeat it. Sometimes they get really spicy and repeat a twitter thread.

It's useful for learning things like weather events, power outages, events going on, mundane stuff like that.

We also have like two actual investigative newspapers, which is way more than the vast majority of the planet has and we're incredibly lucky to have them. Those journalists do not get paid enough for what they do. They expose corruption, and they contextualize the information in the talking points I mentioned earlier.