Local News

Local newsrooms beset by sponsor interference, budget cuts, layoffs, and added programming.

Quality sells, but commitment — and viewership — continue to erode.

For all the "I-Team" graphics and driving music, enterprise reporting -- the serious, proactive journalism that local TV so heavily promotes -- is dropping precipitously.

In an initiative to find the correlation between quality local television journalism and ratings PEJ brings the practice of benchmarking--identifying models of quality in an industry--to local TV news.