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  • 4 - As Local News Goes, So Goes Political Engagement

  • Danny Hayes, George Washington University, Washington DC, Jennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    News Hole
    Published online:
    08 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 63-89

  • Summary

    This chapter provides a thorough empirical account of the connection between local news and political engagement during the last two decades. Drawing on a variety of data sources, we go beyond the existing research to demonstrate that the demise of local newspapers we documented in Chapters 2 and 3 indeed contributes to reductions in political engagement in America’s cities and towns.

  • 3 - Where Local News Has Suffered Most

  • Danny Hayes, George Washington University, Washington DC, Jennifer L. Lawless, University of Virginia
  • Book:
    News Hole
    Published online:
    08 September 2021
    Print publication:
    16 September 2021, pp 41-62

  • Summary

    This chapters turn our attention to how reduced access to local politics coverage has played out. We first investigate the extent to which the local news crisis has affected large versus small daily papers across the country. We then examine which parts of local government were the most likely to be ignored by local newspapers as their reporting ranks thinned. These analyses are critical because they shed light on the kinds of communities that lost the most coverage and the parts of local government most likely to go without scrutiny.