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    America’s Shifting Statehouse Press

    A new study finds 1,592 journalists reporting from U.S. statehouses where the ranks of newspaper reporters have shrunk, the number of journalists at nontraditional outlets has grown and observers worry about the quality of coverage.

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    Library Use by Age

    7 surprises about libraries in our surveys

    As librarians around the country gather in Las Vegas for the American Library Association’s annual conference, here are findings that stand out from our research.

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    The acquisition binge in local TV

    Media companies have dramatically expanding their local television holdings in recent years. Five companies own one-third of the about 1,400 local TV stations in the country.

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    Small digital news sites: young, lean and local

    A new Pew Research Center State of the News Media analysis finds that the growing digital news world is largely comprised of hundreds of smaller sites, often local in scope, that are working to fill gaps left by legacy reporting cuts.

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    A Boom in Acquisitions and Content Sharing Shapes Local TV News in 2013

    Local television in the U.S. saw massive change in 2013, change that remained under the radar of most Americans. Big owners of local TV stations got substantially bigger, thanks to a wave of station purchases. While the TV business profited, the impact on consumers is less clear and seems to vary from one market to the next.

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    Local TV audiences bounce back

    Bucking a long-range trend of declining viewership, the audience for local TV news grew in all three major time slots in 2013.

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