--- title: Five Best: How to Reinvent Local News description: How to reinvent local news, babies are kicking up and inhaling clouds of bio-gunk when they crawl and more. canonical: https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-01-16T17:00:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:12.962Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How to Reinvent Local News og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How to Reinvent Local News twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How to Reinvent Local News by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 16, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jan 16, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**The popularity of local news is dropping fast. Here’s how to reinvent it.**](http://mediashift.org/2018/01/heres-can-reinvent-local-news/) By Mark Effron in _Mediashift_ **2\.** [**When they crawl, babies are kicking up and inhaling clouds of bio-gunk. And that’s ok.**](http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2018/Q1/babies-stir-up-clouds-of-bio-gunk-when-they-crawl.html) By _Purdue University_ **3\.** [**Trump wants to cut off Pakistan. Is the alliance worth saving?**](https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/united-state-pakistan-relations-aid-cutoff-by-richard-n--haass-2018-01) By Richard N. Haass in _Project Syndicate_ **4\.** [**Your local government could offer better — and cheaper — internet service.**](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/city-owned-internet-services-offer-cheaper-and-more-transparent-pricing/) By Jon Brodkin in _Ars Technica_ **5\.** [**Cities were designed for men. That is changing.**](http://nautil.us/issue/56/perspective/your-city-has-a-gender-and-its-male) By Fouad Khan in _Nautilus_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/"},"headline":"How to Reinvent Local News","datePublished":"2018-01-16T17:00:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:12.962Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Pakistan","Innovation","Internet","Babies","cities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5104055/how-to-reinvent-local-news/","name":"How to Reinvent Local News"}}]}] ```