Southern Illinois journalists are tired of talking about our media landscape problems.
The latest State of Local News report was released in October with a headline calling southern Illinois the “Land of Lincoln, land of loss.”
Here’s a more hopeful story: A team of veteran journalists from the Illinois Press Foundation, Capitol News Illinois and Southern Illinois University’s Charlotte Thompson Suhler School of Journalism and Advertising are launching Southern Illinois Source, a nonprofit newsroom that seeks to fill local news coverage gaps, hire more journalists and give students paid hands-on opportunities.
According to the Local News Initiative’s 2026 report, Illinois has lost more newspapers and journalists than any other U.S. state since researchers at Medill started tracking that data in 2005.
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