Personally, I find it kind of difficult to follow local (i.e. town/city) news in my area, so I’m curious if others elsewhere are experiencing similar, or if you’ve had better luck somehow.
Part of this I think may be self-inflicted on my end, as I don’t really watch televised news nor use corporate social media, but even when I have skimmed over those, they tended to cover larger cities & broader areas instead.
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Btw, you don’t need to mention news orgs/sites you follow that might give away your location, I’m just curious about the general state of local news for you, e.g. whether they’re still around via newspaper/website or if you’ve also found yourself in an awkward limbo where it’s larger cities/region news over your own immediate area.
I used to follow my local subreddit and they would post local news but now that I’ve moved to Lemmy, that community is non-existent. Maybe I can try to start a local community. It would be better if there was an rss bot for lemmy to pull in articles to get content for the sub.
You might wanna check-in with the dude running the world news community on fleddit. He set up some kind of bot feed the community with news articles. I’ll dig around in my lunch break and see if I can find his name for ya!
I live in a larger city so we have several local news options, but very little of that involves actual investigative work. It’s usually just repeating talking points from the police, they mayor’s office, the dept of transportation…literally just talking points that whatever organization gave to the news, and then they repeat it. Sometimes they get really spicy and repeat a twitter thread.
It’s useful for learning things like weather events, power outages, events going on, mundane stuff like that.
We also have like two actual investigative newspapers, which is way more than the vast majority of the planet has and we’re incredibly lucky to have them. Those journalists do not get paid enough for what they do. They expose corruption, and they contextualize the information in the talking points I mentioned earlier.
Komo 4 Seattle used to be top notch quality for decades but then it was purchased by Sinclair Media and started doing Russian hit pieces.
There is a small local newsletter style that reports business news, then the rest is just social events. I listen to the police scanner for crime reports bc none of the local news talks about it. This is a tourist town .
I subscribe to a newsletter that covers southern virginia. It’s weird to see the name of my little town mentioned regularly.
There’s a local news company for me that has multiple sites for all the cities/counties in my area (arlnow, ffxnow, alxnow, Tyson’s reporter) that I find useful with local events, news and whatnot.
I don’t follow local tv or social media either, but I find the newspaper to be pretty informative overall
Most of my local news comes from https://blockclubchicago.org/ and my alderman’s newsletter
