Most Americans follow local political news — but few are satisfied with the coverage they get, a Pew report finds

Do most Americans want news about local government and politics? Do they follow news on this topic? And are they satisfied with the local political coverage they have?

Those are three of the key questions a new report from the Pew-Knight Initiative, released last week, sought to answer. (The extreme CliffsNotes is “yes,” “yes,” and, importantly, “no.”) This is the second study in the initiative’s research series focused on Americans’ relationship to local news; the first report, released in May...