[NEWS] Four notes about journalism: local news, education, LA weekly, predictions

[rfmcdonald]

• April Lindgren at The Conversation makes the obvious point that, if Canadians want local news coverage, they are going to have to get used to paying for it.
  
• The Western Gazette, student paper of the University of Western Ontario, looks at how that university's journalism programs are changing in the face of journalism's plight.


• Jennifer Swann at VICE notes how journalists once employed by LA Weekly are trying to lead a boycott of that paper, with the hope of eventually rebooting it.


• The predictions on the future of journalism shared by the Nieman Journalism Lab are worth noting, because of their realism and lack of illusion.