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Can nonprofit news work on local TV? A Pennsylvania partnership aims to find out

Summary by Nieman Lab
One of my favorite Nieman Lab predictions in recent years came from Nik Usher, associate professor of communication studies at the University of San Diego. The prediction, “The future-of-journalism crowd stops ignoring local TV news,” used the film Mean Girls as an analogy to describe local news types. Usher describes how the “freaks and geeks” of the local news system — reporters from local newspapers and local news nonprofits (present company …

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Nieman Lab broke the news in on Monday, August 11, 2025.
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