Northwestern University’s Medill Institute recently released,  “The State of Local News 2022: Expanding News Deserts, Growing Gaps, Emerging Models.” This report out of the institute’s Local News Initiative of has inspired a series of editorials on the crisis of local journalism in newspapers across the country. These include Katrina vanden Heuvel’s column in the Washington Post “Save […]

In addition to our monthly reading and open mic, the Tucson chapter of the National Writers Union now presents the weekly broadcast, “Words and Work,” at 11:30 a.m. MST Sundays on Downtown Radio (99.1 FM), and streaming at downtownradio.org. NWU member Ted Prezelski serves as host. The show explores issues around unions and writing. Guests […]