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Making Sense of Long Island's News Deserts

Although Long Island sits in one of the biggest media markets in the world, several local communities have become “news deserts” — where local news coverage is shrinking — producing a measurable and consequential deterioration in civic dialogue. The emergence of news deserts is a national phenomenon, posing serious challenges to underrepresented communities and grassroots organizations. For more than a year, Hofstra University Professors Aashish Kumar, Mario Murillo and Scott Brinton, a PCLI board member, have been working to develop an interactive website that graphically represents the findings of their 2024 study, “The Suburban News Desert: Where Communities of Color Are Starved for Critical Information Amid Crime-Centered News Coverage,” published by the Texas Center for Community Journalism and the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication this past June. The study was more than two years in the making. The three run through their findings and launch the new website. A question-and-answer session follows.