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An evaluation of online information acquisition in US news deserts [PDF]
Scientific ReportsA growing concern is that as local newspapers disappear, communities lose trusted gatekeepers and develop information voids, creating openings for misinformation to thrive.
Kevin T. Greene +4 more
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Deserted Local News: Exploring News Deserts From a Journalistic Recruitment Perspective
Media and Communication, 2023 An emerging body of research addresses how news deserts cause democratic deficits. This literature is mostly concerned with the closure of local news outlets.
Ragnhild Kr. Olsen, Birgit Røe Mathisen
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Sourcing Local Information in News Deserts [PDF]
Journalism and Media(1) Background: News deserts are communities without a local news outlet, or communities where residents face significantly reduced access to the news of the local public sphere.
Luísa Torre +3 more
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Co-Creating News Oases in Media Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 The Media Deserts Project is a research effort to map and model the changing media landscape in the United States. Media deserts are defined as geographies lacking fresh, daily news and information. Using circulation data of US print newspapers, emerging
Michelle Barrett Ferrier
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Forecasting Future News Deserts [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023 This article builds a model to forecast the number of newspapers that will exist in each US county in 2028, based on what is known about each county in 2023. The methodology is to use information known in 2018 to predict the number of newspapers in 2023. Having estimated the model parameters, we apply it to 2023 data.
Malthouse, Edward +3 more
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No Media, No Voters? The Relationship between News Deserts and Voting Abstention [PDF]
Social Sciences, 2023 Local journalism has suffered major transformations as traditional business models collapse and habits of news consumption change. A lack of funding and successive economic crises have brought about, on a global scale, the shutdown of many news outlets ...
Giovanni Ramos +2 more
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Places and Spaces Without News: The Contested Phenomenon of News Deserts
Media and Communication, 2023 News deserts have gained prominence both in academic literature and policy discussions about local news in recent years. Although there is no agreed definition of the term, it usually refers to the lack of or diminishing availability, access, or use of ...
Agnes Gulyas +2 more
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News Deserts: A Research Agenda for Addressing Disparities in the United States
Media and Communication, 2023 News deserts are spread unevenly across the US, with as much as a fifth of the country’s population handicapped by a lack of access to critical news and information. There is a prodigious amount of recent research outlining the consequences for democracy.
Penelope Muse Abernathy
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A Discursive Evolution: Trade Publications Explain News Deserts to United States Journalists
Media and Communication, 2023 Although diminishing newsrooms—and gaping holes in community news coverage—have been acknowledged in the US for over a decade, the term “news desert” did not widely emerge in discourse among industry professionals to refer to places that lacked news ...
Patrick Ferrucci +3 more
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Local News Deserts in China: The Role of Social Media and Personal Communication Networks
Media and Communication, 2023 The field of local news is often associated with news deserts, commonly defined as geo-based communities without newspapers or other legacy media as providers of locally oriented news and civic information.
Zixue Tai, Bai He, Jianping Liu
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