Bills in New York and California include things like tax credits for employing local journalists and taxes on Meta and Google.

And those attitudes about local information ecosystems may provide insight into solutions for news deserts.

Legacy news outlets are changing revenue models, for-profit outfits are switching to nonprofit and startups are finding opportunities.

Keith Stickley had to pull the plug on the local newspaper he founded when he just couldn’t make the economics work any longer.

In King George County, Virginia, the closure of local newspapers and struggles of area outlets to cover the community have left residents with few sources of reliable news.

Checking in with the remaining reporters in Val Verde County, Texas, three years after its last daily newspaper folded.

Researchers have labeled 204 counties in America as “news deserts” — places that lack access to credible, reliable news sources. That includes Val Verde County, Texas.

The Deming Headlight was a “ghost paper” under its corporate owner. Now independent, the paper has rebounded with community support.

A handful of news media startups are finding new ways of generating revenue in straitened circumstances.

The Tribune Co. has agreed to pay $2.7 billion for 19 local TV stations.