There's a slow but steady trend at TV stations across the country to produce more local news. At least three TV stations recently announced adding a collective 10 hours a week. Several more stations added news in the last year. Investment in high-definition news production gear may be one impetus. The ROI of local news could be better than syndicated programming; that could be another. Stations don't say why they're adding news, other than the usual gobbledygook about serving viewers. Another thing that goes conveniently unmen-tioned is the impact on personnel. The Pew Center reported earlier this year that TV newsroom staff numbers had fallen by around 1,600 people since 2008.
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