I teach college and report on Colorado media — there should be more professors doing the same in other states

Newsletters that cover a state's media landscape are few and far between, according to a new report. iStock / Getty Images Plus

Over the years, the crisis facing local news has meant the disappearance of reporting on the arts, politics, sports and local government.

Newspapers have disappeared from many local communities, and the ranks of individual local journalists have plummeted over the past two decades.