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VOA News | Thursday, April 25, 2024
Biden, 17 world leaders demand Hamas release hostages

Jonathan Salant likes to collect things: bobbleheads of presidents and celebrities, campaign buttons, nearly 40 years of press passes. But most of all, he likes to collect stories. One of his favorites is from 2023, when several members of the New Jersey congressional delegation advocated for him to keep his job after the Star-Ledger, a Newark-based paper, had laid him off, leaving the Garden State without a reporter in Washington assigned to the Capitol beat. The story of local news layoffs has been repeating across the U.S. for nearly 20 years, as financial hardships in the industry have left more and more communities without a watchdog in the nation’s capital. That loss, Salant said, is bad news for democracy. “The public are the ones that are the losers because there’s nobody keeping track of their elected officials,” he said. Now heading the Capitol Hill beat for Pennsylvania’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette with one other colleague, Salant is a rarity: a Washington-based reporter covering national politics for a local news outlet. About two decades ago, hundreds of reporters like him were working in the capital. Now only about 60 remain, according to the Regional Reporters Association. They have become “an endangered species, and the consequences for communities across the country are huge,” said Tim Franklin, who heads Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative…Read more

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