blog post weeke 12

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 The term/concept that I decided to do was news dessert. News Desert is an undercovered geographical area that has few/no news outlets and receives little coverage. The news desert dates back to 2011 when it first started. The news desert is also known as the communication desert. A journalist named Lara S. Washington has an article name The Paradox of our Media Age and What to Do About It. Lara S. Washington talked about the community dessert as “a place where vital information does not reach one’s neighborhood”. The community organized talks about how everyone keeps talking about the bad stuff and never talks about the good that is going on in the communities. Since 2011 multiple definitions have emerged. An example of that is a media desert or a news desert is essentially an uncovered area that has few to no outlets to receive news that is going on. There was a media desert project that was a research project with the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University that goes in-depth on the media desert and gives its own definition of it. Their definition is “a community, with rural or urban, with limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feeds democracy at the grassroots level”. The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media talked about how there is a risk that news deserts are emerging in communities without numbers and also areas with diminished newspaper. There is a suspicion that there is a risk for those places becoming a news desert. Right now there no one really uses newspapers anymore and only use the news on the internet, so the places that don’t have internet would be those place that is a news desert because instead of getting information on a newspaper like everyone else uses to get, it is not mostly online. Tom Stites wrote an article about data tracking how fast news deserts are spreading. Data shows that most of the places that are in the news desert are where local economies and civic health may already be stumbling. The Center for Innovation and Sustainability in Local Media at the University of North Carolina was the one that did the data. The University tracked the news deserts by tracking newspapers and online news sites. Matt DeRienzo who is an exclusive director of Local Independent Online News Publishers was interviewed and he said that LION has made a list of 600 online news sites. There are around 600 out of the 1,500 communities that have lost their newspapers since 2004. Around 900 communities have lost their newspapers without getting online news to be updated on the news going on in the world which has made them a news desert. Online sights tend to be in suburban areas such as Connecticut, New Jersey, and east bay California. Matt DeRienzo has said that he worries that many online sites struggle in communities. News desert is a new thing that came out around 9 years ago. The News desert has spread to many places in the United States. Places that you think would not think would be a news desert is news desert because of them not getting the news. 



https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2018/new-data-tracks-how-fast-news-deserts-are-spreading/

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