This report is the first of three over as many years investigating the impact of contraction of regional media in New South Wales on metro coverage of news and issues significant to Australia which originate in non-urban areas.

The Public Interest Journalism Initiative is collecting information about news producers from all around Australia. The Australian News Index is intended to help communities, researchers and policy-makers access and use their data.

This report discusses how to save local news in Canada, and how to best adapt the Australian model of negotiated compensation between Google/Meta and the news industry.

The Public Interest Journalism Initiative is collecting information about print and digital local news producers from all around Australia. This map of local news producers is intended to help communities, researchers and policymakers see where local news is flourishing, and where it might be struggling.

This review of literature and research covers the topics of diversity and localism. This includes an exploration of how it can be measured over time across the variety of news sources being consumed.