There’s no question that the ranks of local journalists have been decimated in the United States over the last decade. As local newsrooms have been gutted, the concentration of journalists in this country has shifted to the coasts — and that was a big part of what led to the huge gap in media coverage (i.e., the media bubble) around the 2016 presidential election.

That’s why The Guardian teamed up with the Economic Hardship Reporting Project to launch On the Ground. Read the full story in Media Shift.