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Advance Local shutters Reckon News

The Objective · James Salanga · last updated

Reckon News is shutting down and laying off 11 staffers.

The newsroom, born in the U.S. South, focused on reckonings in the U.S. (with a particular focus on climate justice, reproductive rights, queerness and trans rights, Blackness, racial justice, and movements through the lens of marginalized communities’ perspectives). Started in 2017 as an outgrowth of Alabama-based AL.com, Reckon then shifted to regional coverage of the Deep South and expanded to national news in 2022.

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