The General Assembly’s Local Journalism Task Force released a report last year that one-third of Illinois’ newspapers have closed since 2005, creating an 86% decline in newspaper jobs over that span.

The St. Louis American was given nine first-place, three second place, and several other awards that honored staff members for excellence in print, community service, online contributions, and videos ...

The publications in Alaska lost significant staffing after the owners made changes to an article that had drawn criticism ...

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that Better Newspapers Inc. did not sell all of its newspapers to Paxton Media Group. SPRINGFIELD — A newspaper publisher in central and southern ...