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From bad to worse: 2026 is shaping up to be “a super El Niño year for local news”

If you thought last year was bleak, Medill’s annual State of Local News Report is here to ring the alarm bell louder. What was a “creeping erosion” has now “mushroomed into a full-blown super El Niño-like event for local news, leaving widespread and long-lasting displacement in its wake,” writes Tim Franklin, founding director of the...