Feb 28, 2020
Stat: 71: The percentage of Americans who believe that their local news outlet is doing well financially.
Story: Local news outlets are struggling against declines in circulation and advertising, with 2,100 newspapers closing over the past 15 years. In the first installment of our three-part series on the changing...
Feb 21, 2020
Story: In this series, we explore the decline in local news coverage across America. Host Dan LeDuc interviews journalism experts, travels to a “news desert” where the daily newspaper recently printed its last edition, and visits the newsroom of a paper that is bucking the trend and doubling down on its investment...
Feb 7, 2020
Stat: 800 million: The number of people in the world who live within the footprint, 62 miles, of a volcano.
Story: In the latest episode in our “Scientists at Work” series, we go behind the scenes at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where we meet geologist and volcanologist Ben Andrews, who works...