Journal News Skips Local News on Sunday’s Front Page

Written By: Robert Cox

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Rick Edmonds, a media analyst for the Poynter Institute, has a devastating takedown on the Journal News that is well worth the read for residents of Rockland, Westchester, and Putnam.

Edmonds is writing about the Sunday, Nov. 29 print edition of The Journal News: Journal News Skips Local News on Sunday’s Front Page

Readers of The Journal News in the Westchester County suburbs of New York City were greeted last Sunday by an odd print edition in their driveway — its A-1 front page was devoid of local news.

His analysis might explain why our traffic here at Talk of the Sound has skyrocketed in 2020 while LoHud has collapsed. Readers are hungry for local news and hyper-local sites like ours are giving readers want they want.

Read the entire article on Words in Edgewise on substack.