Even before the Grand Admiral of Space Force began his incessant attacks on the media, many mainstream media outlets, especially local newspapers, were faltering because their business model no longer works. Ad revenue and subscriptions are no longer able to adequately fund many newspapers, leading to dramatically reduced coverage or newspapers closing entirely.
This is scary. Without local newspapers, who keeps an eye on the city council? The school board? The factory dumping waste into a local stream?
Meanwhile, many university faculty are searching for a meaningful scholarship agenda, hoping to spend their time on something more useful than esoteric articles submitted to obscure (and unread) journals.
Why not recognize both of these ideas and endorse a Scholarship of Reporting?
Here is a Time magazine article on declining local newspapers: Time – Losing Reporters
Here is my article on an expanded concept of scholarship, including the scholarship of reporting: Scholarship Reconsidered for the Post-Truth Era