The Poynter Institute’s Angela Fu reports that as the number of local journalists declines across the United States, state and local governments and officials are making it harder for reporters to get access to news events.
“They are being turned away from press conferences, stonewalled by politicians and excluded from government spaces they previously had access to,” Fu writes.
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