By Olivia Cohen >> Before joining the Hechinger Report, Meredith Kolodner worked at different New York daily newspapers on both business and education beats. But since arriving at the Report about ten years ago, she’s been immersed in in-depth education reporting. When Kolodner first arrived at the Report she covered kindergarten through 12th grade; she
By Olivia Cohen In an increasingly rare move for a print publication, especially with the abrupt closure of The Riverfront Times, Chicago’s alt-weekly is expanding its print operations. The Reader will print weekly editions of the paper again starting this week after reducing its paper distribution to a biweekly in June 2020 because of the
By Olivia Cohen Five months after police raided the Marion County Record in Kansas, drawing international media attention, newsrooms across the state are still reeling from the unprecedented seizure of cell phones and computers. The Aug. 11 raid on the newspaper’s offices was unusual because it involved multiple agencies and included a search of the
The city of Chicago will direct half of its advertising dollars to smaller local news outlets in the new year through a measure long sought by independent media outlets. Chicago spent $3.5 million on media ads from 2015 to 2020, with just over $660,000 going toward placement in community outlets. This fall, Chicago Mayor Lori
