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https://localnewsinitiative.northwestern.edu/Last activity: 19.10.2026
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| Feb 12, 2026 | Donald Trump Is VERY EXCITED About All Of Our Shitty Right Wing Broadcasters Merging Into One Bigger, Even Shittier Company | Trump 1.0 took a hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, trampling smaller (and more diversely-owned) competi... |
| Jan 6, 2026 | Right Wing Media Companies Begin Bickering At The FCC Over Who Gets To Dominate The Exploding Right Wing Propaganda Market | American right wing propaganda companies are beginning to fight among themselves as a shrinking number of dodgy media companies vie for domination of the Trump-coddled U.S. propaganda market. Newsmax, a right wing propaganda organization pr... |
| Sep 8, 2025 | Best of SNO Returns to Recognize the Nation’s Top Student Journalists | Best of SNO Celebrating excellence in scholastic journalism, Best of SNO 2025 opens for submissions Sept. 15. For student journalists, seeing their work published on a national platform like Best of SNO is a great motivator. It provides imm... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Republicans Like Nancy Mace Keep Shamelessly Taking Credit For Infrastructure Bill Improvements They Voted Against | Back in 2021, Congress passed both the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and the infrastructure bill. While getting the latter right has taken a lot of time (causing no limit of whining by election-season Republicans and some segments of the ... |
| Aug 28, 2025 | GOP-Friendly Local ‘News’ Broadcasters Plan More Harmful Mergers After Trump Destroys What’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits | During Trump 1.0, his FCC took at absolute hatchet to media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, trampling smaller (and mor... |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Trump FCC Prepares To Destroy Whatever’s Left Of Media Consolidation Limits | During Trump 1.0, his captured FCC took at absolute hatchet to what was left of media ownership limits. Those limits, built on the back of decades of bipartisan collaboration, prohibited local broadcasters and media from growing too large, ... |
| Aug 26, 2024 | Google заключила сделку с Калифорнией на $250 млн для поддержки журналистики | Компания Google заключила сделку со штатом Калифорния на сумму $250 млн для поддержки калифорнийских новостных редакций, сообщает TechCrunch. Несмотря на то что сделка предлагает необходимые денежные вложения для отрасли, которая в этом год... |
| Feb 1, 2024 | Smartmatic Claims OAN Violated Privacy Laws By Giving Employee Passwords To Trump Campaign | When last we checked in with right wing propaganda mill One America News (OAN), the conspiratorial gibberish farm was busy trying to pretend (with the help of numerous Republican AGs) that DirecTV’s decision to boot the network from its cab... |
| Jan 9, 2024 | Star Tribune expanding outstate Minnesota coverage | The Star Tribune has posted jobs for four outstate reporters and a columnist in an effort to beef up its coverage of greater Minnesota. Why it matters: The move by the state's largest news organization comes after years of decline in rural ... |
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What has the press written about Local News Initiative?
Parsers VC has collected 13 articles mentioning Local News Initiative, among them “Donald Trump Is VERY EXCITED About All Of Our Shitty Right Wing Broadcasters Merging Into One Bigger, Even Shittier Company” (Feb 12, 2026) and “Right Wing Media Companies Begin Bickering At The FCC Over Who Gets To Dominate The Exploding Right Wing Propaganda Market” (Jan 6, 2026).
Is Local News Initiative still active?
Yes, Local News Initiative is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Oct 19, 2026.