Marcy Burstiner

1 week ago | news-decoder.com | Marcy Burstiner

Can youth doing journalism help save local news media? Unfortunately, this isn’t a rhetorical question. The crisis around the world for local news outlets is so dire, people who understand the importance of unbiased news at the local level are looking for any and all solutions to save the industry. This is a worldwide phenomenon. Data collected by researcher Amy Watson in August 2023, for example, found that more news outlets in the UK closed than were launched.

1 month ago | news-decoder.com | Marcy Burstiner

The more complicated an issue is, the more you need to humanize it and make it comprehensible. That’s where the anecdote comes in. A guy tells a story about a porcupine to a friend.

2 months ago | news-decoder.com | Marcy Burstiner

An audience will connect to a news story that is about something that concerns them even if they stumble on it long after it is published. A person holds a newspaper with a pine tree branch in it, symbolising “evergreen” content.

2 months ago | news-decoder.com | Marcy Burstiner

News reporters are needed more now than ever before. If you’ve got a lot of curiosity and a little determination you have what it takes. Young woman talks on a phone.

2 months ago | news-decoder.com | Marcy Burstiner

Democracy as a form of government relies on an informed public. The founders of democracy in the United States, which became a model for much of the world, recognized the connection between democracy and the press when writing the U.S. Constitution. Freedom of the press became one of the five pillars in the very to the Constitution. Moreover, one of the first acts was to establish an inexpensive postal system, in part so that newspapers could be distributed cheaply.