The pervasive influence and data processing capacity wielded by Big Tech companies makes their transparency efforts especially salient. Policymakers are showing a growing appetite to mandate transparency reports. The present study is a content analysis of all 2020 transparency reports issued by...

Technological and economic assaults have destroyed the for-profit business model that sustained local journalism in this country for two centuries. While the advertising-based model for local news has been under threat for many years, the COVID-19 pandemic and recession have created what some...