In Episode 6 Steve and Devon sit down with Nick Charles and Ken Gude from The Save Journalism Project to discuss the current threats to local news and journalism as a whole by ‘big tech’. We’ve talked a lot about cookies on this podcast and this episode is no exception. Cookies allow for the flow of advertising dollars to fund the free and open internet. With cookies in decline, and large tech organizations owning a lion’s share of the advertising pie, our local news, and our communities are at risk.  Over the last 10 years, newspaper newsrooms have declined in size by 45%, and in 2019, the media shed more than 7,200 jobs. 60% of U.S. counties have no daily newspaper and 1,300 communities have lost local news coverage in the last 15 years. If these numbers are alarming, they should be. Please listen to learn more about out what is being done to save journalism, what you can do to provide support, and how technology is directly impacting the future of local news.