U.S. Newspaper Crisis and Its Philanthropic Repair: What Losing the News Means for Public Accountability

• In Event: Declining Local News Consumption, Polarization, and Democracy

Brief Overview

This paper examines the connection between declines in local journalism and the possibility of declines in federal prosecutions for public corruption in the US, using county-level newspaper resources data across all 94 US judicial districts.

Authors

• Sanghoon Kim-Leffingwell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• Nikki Usher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign