Market Place - News is a business. Is that leaving communities out of the loop?

Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, is quoted noting that U.S. news markets have long neglected to provide coverage for many communities.

This interview was also published on NY Daily News Gazette and Boston’s local NPR station.

“As money gets tighter in the news industry, there are many communities that professional journalists aren’t writing about. “There have just been places across the U.S. that have never really been seen to be viable news markets,” Nikki Usher, media professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, said in an interview with Marketplace’s Kimberly Adams. “That doesn’t mean that those communities don’t have news, but the kind of news that we tend to think of as professional news and information just hasn’t existed in these places, or these places have been tremendously under-resourced.”

Read the full article on Marketplace here.