The UNC Hussman School’s 2020 Report also found that states in the Midwest, South and Rocky Mountains had the most counties with only one local newspaper, which often covered vast regions and populations.Īnn Arbor still has its share of media: MLive Ann Arbor is updated regularly online and prints the new Ann Arbor News as a digest twice weekly. The Observer is actually monthly, and so Washtenaw County meets the UNC school’s definition of a “news desert”: “a community, either rural or urban, with limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grassroots level.” On the same database, Washtenaw County, where Ann Arbor is located, is incorrectly listed as having one weekly newspaper, the Ann Arbor Observer. Michigan has seen a 26 percent decrease in the number of newspapers between 20, according to the UNC Hussman School of Journalism and Media. Each dot in this map represents a local newspaper that shut down between 20. Ultimately, declining revenue made the newspaper financially unsustainable. “Home to the huge University of Michigan, birthplace and headquarters of the Borders book chain and a pocket of relative prosperity with only light collateral damage from the auto industry, a literate place, population around 100,000, one might expect to be appreciative of what print newspapers offer,” Rick Edmonds, media business analyst, said in his Poynter article announcing the shutdown of the Ann Arbor News. In 2009, Poynter Institute dubbed Ann Arbor “the first city to lose its only daily newspaper.” Over the course of that time, Ann Arbor’s local daily newspaper has undergone multiple transformations, from The Ann Arbor News to Ann to The Ann Arbor News again, this time run at the state level by media conglomerate MLive.Īnn Arbor is far from the only city to lose its print news, but it was one of the first. Our students could take on these bigger stories whereas in an era of really clickbait journalism, that longer story doesn’t have the money and the support behind it,” she said.Īnderson has advised Community High School’s student-run Communicator Magazine for over 20 years.
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It shows the fact that professional journalists in our community are not being paid to do in-depth or quality reporting. Aside from raising concerns about the potential vitriol in the anonymous comments section, the request also reinforced her observation that funding for professional local journalism in the region was in short supply. Ten years ago, when high school journalism teacher Tracy Anderson was approached by a professional news source in Ann Arbor asking to publish her students’ work, she did not immediately take it as a compliment, although it was an opportunity for her budding journalists.
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