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An interview with Margot Susca, author of Hedged. The book reveals a newspaper industry rocked by an obsession with profit and beholden to private fund interests.
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A Pew Research Center analysis found that one in six journalists are now part of a union, and more than twice that want to join one. However, it also found that smaller publications, like those in the rural Mountain West, are less likely to unionize. Of those with fewer than 10 people, only 4% have a union.
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As a listener of Boise State Public Radio, you’ve probably heard David Folkenflik’s reporting on the press. As a news media journalist working for NPR,…
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Journalists at the Idaho Statesman have unionized, after announcing their intentions in March. The vote was unanimous for non-manager newsroom staffers…
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The McClatchy Company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Wednesday in New York. The media company owns 30 local newspapers, including the Idaho Statesman,…
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America’s biggest supermarket chain is removing free publication racks from its stores beginning this month, prompting criticism from alternative weekly...
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Many parts of the Mountain West are news deserts -- and it’s getting worse . More than 20 counties in our region have no local newspaper. The ones that...
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It can be hard to escape national political news. On the flip side, it's getting harder to find out what's going on in our own backyard. In our region,...
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The Rocky Mountain News. The South Idaho Press. The Lone Peak New Utah. These long-gone newspapers range from a Pulitzer-winning metro-area daily to...
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Newspapers across the Mountain West have faced troubling times recently. There have been layoffs, budget cuts and, on Tuesday morning, Montana’s biggest...