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In this Thursday, June 28, 2012 photo is the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence on July 6, 1776 in The Pennsylvania Evening Post, according to Scott Stephenson. This artifact and others hidden treasures will remain under wraps in their anonymous location until late 2015, when The Museum of the American Revolution is scheduled to open in Philadelphia’s historic district. (Brynn Anderson / The Associated Press)

July 3, 2024 at 4:44 pm

Free Press roundup: League of Women Voters backing local news, CA bills advance | Brier Dudley

Efforts to save local journalism should get a boost from the League of Women Voters, which decided that saving local news is important to democracy.

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Past editions of the Herald and News hang on a wall in the newsroom in Klamath Falls, Oregon. (Arden Barnes / Herald and News)

June 26, 2024 at 4:39 pm

WA, Oregon newspaper cuts show why press support is needed | Brier Dudley

Layoffs and closures of papers across Washington and Oregon should prompt residents and leaders to consider ways to preserve local coverage.

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A U.S. Coast Guard boat crew responds to three fishermen in the water after the commercial fishing vessel Mary B II capsized, Jan. 8, 2019, while crossing Yaquina Bay Bar off the coast of Newport, Ore. Three people were killed. A crew member of a doomed crabbing vessel that sank off the Oregon coast texted with his wife until the final moments before he was tossed overboard as the U.S. Coast Guard tried to reach the boat in 20-foot waves. Josh Porter’s wife, Denise Porter, gave tearful testimony Wednesday, May 15, 2019 about those texts and a desperate phone call from her husband on the third day of a Coast Guard hearing into the wreck (U.S. Coast Guard via AP) LA313

June 24, 2024 at 10:20 am

Despite more layoffs, newspapers still doing important work | Brier Dudley

Despite another year of cutbacks, local newspapers continue to produce hard-hitting investigative stories making a difference in their communities.

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Alex Hanson looks over sections of the Herald and sets the ink on Wednesday, March 30, 2022 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

June 18, 2024 at 3:33 pm

Big layoffs at Everett's Herald, Sound Publishing | Brier Dudley

The Southern publisher that recently acquired 43 newspapers in Washington, including The Herald of Everett, disclosed plans to lay off at least 62 staffers.

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FILE — Isabella Cimato, 17, left, Arianna Schaden, 14, center, and Sofia Harrison, 15, check their phones at Roosevelt Field shopping mall in Garden City, N.Y., on July 27, 2015. The New York state Legislature has passed a bill, Friday, June 7, 2024, that would allow parents to block their kids from getting social media posts suggested by a platform’s algorithm — a regulation that tries to curtail feeds that critics argue are addicting to children.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NYRD604 NYRD604

June 12, 2024 at 5:05 pm

Survey finds news consumers on social media often find sketchy stories | Brier Dudley

People often find news that seems inaccurate on top social media sites, a new survey finds. Most aren't going there for news but see it...

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Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., center, speaks during the House Judiciary Committee markup hearing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress, Thursday, May 16, 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington. DCJL134

June 7, 2024 at 2:25 pm

Congress fiddles as local news industry burns | Brier Dudley

It looks like Congress may not act to save the local news industry this year, even as further layoffs and consolidation are happening.

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A sign for the Portland Tribune newspaper is seen on Tuesday, May 14, 2024, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)

June 5, 2024 at 4:24 pm

A brutal week for Oregon newspapers with more sales, closures | Brier Dudley

It was a brutal Monday for Oregon's newspaper industry, when publishers of nearly half the state's papers said they are selling or have sold.

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Tom Loesch, founder and president of imPRESSions Worldwide, in the company’s Skagit County printing-press facility.

May 31, 2024 at 2:06 pm

Skagit company keeps newspapers printing worldwide | Brier Dudley VIEW

Newspapers may be printing less but a Skagit County company selling and servicing printing equipment worldwide is seeing a resurgence of interest in presses.

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Television crews are seen outside the office building of former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in santa Monica, Calif., Wednesday, May 18, 2011. Schwarzenegger acknowledged Tuesday that he fathered a child with a member of his household staff, a revelation that apparently prompted wife Maria Shriver to leave the couple’s home before they announced their separation. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes) CADD101

May 22, 2024 at 5:03 pm

Don't let flare-ups distract from progress toward saving local news | Brier Dudley

Kerfuffles around several state policies to help save local news outlets shouldn't distract from great progress legislators are making on this front.

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Democratic state Sen. Steve Glazer questions Democratic state Sen. Anthony Portantino about his measure requiring parents to tell school officials if they keep guns in the house during a hearing of the Senate Education Committee in Sacramento, Calif., Wednesday, March 30, 2022. Glazer voted in favor of the bill but it failed passage in its first legislative committee. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

May 15, 2024 at 4:58 pm

A California state senator has an audacious, $500 million idea for saving local news | Brier Dudley

A proposed "data extraction" tax on tech giants would fund grants to revitalize local journalism in California, but it faces several obstacles.

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