Industry developments logged as they happen: launches, closures, layoff rounds, acquisitions, grant awards and masthead changes. Entries carry dates, staffing numbers and dollar amounts when those become public. Suited to editors, recruiters, funders and researchers keeping a record of the field.
A dated feed of industry movement: newsroom openings and shutdowns, layoffs, grant awards, editor appointments and changes of ownership.
The post-2008 collapse in J-school enrollment has given way to a smaller, more vocational pattern — growth in data, audio, and community journalism, in programs tied to working newsrooms.
Owen Blackwood
The index measures the environment for journalism, not the quality of it — and the seven-year methodology change means comparisons need more care than the rankings imply.
Owen Blackwood
Meta's 2025 exit from third-party fact-checking in the U.S. ended the largest distribution deal in the field — and pushed fact-checkers toward elections, health, and direct readers.
Owen Blackwood
Licence fees, household levies, appropriations, and hybrid systems each buy independence of one kind and vulnerability of another; the comparisons are useful wherever public media is debated.
Owen Blackwood
The British government's first local media action plan funds skills, measurement, and community coverage through 2028; the design choices matter more than the sum.
William Elliott