How Do You Get Your News?
How do you get your news and local information? How could the quality of that information be improved? KCET and the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy want to know. Take the short survey linked below and tell us about the information you want, need and expect from your news providers and local governments. Your answers will be used as part of the first major study of the digital age on how information needs are being met nationwide.
Take the Survey
We want to know how you get your news. Tell us in the survey!
Read the Knight Report
Read the draft report of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.
More on News and Community from SoCal Connected and KCET Local
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The Bake Sale and Kyrgyzstan
D.J. Waldie
KCET Local blogger and Los Angeles chronicler D.J. Waldie explains why "[l]ocality and the media have a conflicted relationship. You want the media to tell you when the Little League bake sale opens and you want the media to tell you the implications of monetary policy in Kyrgyzstan." Read more...
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NPR and California
Shereen Marisol Meraji
NPR recently shuttered its two California-based shows - Day to Day and News & Notes. What do the cuts means for coverage of the nation's most populous state? Is news from California sufficiently covered by the national networks? Former Day to Day producer Shereen Marison Meraji talks to some of her former co-workers about California, news and the end of a radio era. See more...
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Beyond My Doorstep
Opehlia Chong
For KCET Local blogger Ophelia Chong, the first step in daily news gathering is her daily morning walk out of her door: "On my walk I will see the small changes and shifts of my neighborhood. It is a slow moving story of change and time." Read more...
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Tomorrow's News Today?
SoCal Connected's Webteam
CA's online news landscape includes for-profit sites and non-profits, professional sites, sites staffed entirely by volunteers, news aggregators, online community-driven sites and pro-am hybrids along the lines of the well-trafficked (but still unprofitable) Huffington Post. To sort that thicket out, the SoCal Connected Webteam presents a guide to some of the sites trying to bring you the future of California news. Read more...
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A Failure to Communicate
Erin Aubry Kaplan
KCET Local blogger Erin Aubry Kaplan makes a confession: "I realize I know virtually nothing about the daily life of my own community. If I didn't walk my dogs an hour every morning, literally get out and see the landscape, I'd know even less." Read more...
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