Seattle radio station KUOW featured The JOLT in a segment yesterday discussing the state of local news.
The JOLT 's Publisher Danny Stusser and other journalists talked about founding news outfits to cover local events in their respective communities and the challenges they face running them.
The segment, now also a podcast, cited the University of North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism, saying more than a fourth of the country’s newspapers disappeared between 2004 and 2019.
"We've seen sort of a democratization of journalism in a way that has actually been caused by this sort of wavering trust in mainstream news," said University of Washington's Center for an Informed Public postgraduate fellow Rachel Moran in the podcast.
Stusser shared that "our commitment is to cover all the public meetings in our three cities and the county," Stusser explained. "We have a list that is about 100 different kinds of commissions and boards and councils that we try to cover."
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