New York Lawmakers Try to Revive Local News

Martha A. Garcia-Murillo, Senior Associate of the School of Information Studies (iSchool) was quoted in the New York Times article “Local news is dying. New York may try to pass a law to save it.” Lawmakers from New York are proposing a bill that would require any cable company operating within the state to have a local news channel. In the article, Garcia-Murillo commented on the role of the government in regulating news and implementing policies related to it.