Local News Decline

That assumes you have a local news source. Many don't.

I live in a small market served by one of the papers involved. Their website is the hub for local and state news in a way that simply doesn't compare with a large market.One of the changes to the newspaper business is that I can get national and international stories from the NYT or Post at no cost and at my leisure. Big story reporting has become commoditized.What has value is news that I can't get anywhere else and which is likely to effect people I know personally - like school board de

It's not bad for hyper-local news in the absence of town newspapers (mostly gone) though this greatly depends on the communities that you subscribe to

Well Local Media channels are viewed/heard much more than NYT or BBC. Thankfully ;)

A lot of news sources have a large part of their media already devoted to local news. I don't see this providing much value on top of that. I think your engineering work here is great, but business wise I think you should pivot.

I don’t know where you live, but at least in the US, local news is almost extinct. I used to work for a chain of local newspapers - we had one or more reporters for each one, and we would go to every town and school board meeting and cover what was happening. That chain was bought up by a national, half the papers were shuttered outright, and the rest are run by one editor who doesn’t have time to do in depth coverage, and basically just parrots press releases. A few “local” replacements have cr

Local news sites are the worst for it. It's understandable, but it sometimes makes reading HN a pain

Turn off local news too. It's been taken over by other interests

I'm only in my mid-30s and I still remember when local papers had actual local staff that covered local topics. Now the local paper is owned by a conglomerate and they just reprint AP/Reuters articles and have a little bit about local sports. It's a joke of what it used to be--and it hasn't been replaced by anything comparable online. It's not about disruption, this is just concentration of media.

My town as two newspapers and two TV new stations. They employ more than a dozen journalists, including an old friend of mine.If you want any actual important news, you go to Facebook and make sure that you’re following the right people and you’re in the right groups, because that’s where the news about local governance and politics actually comes out. The papers and TV stations almost always run bland human interest stories, business propaganda, press release reprints, a huge selection of na