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Poynter: “Saving Local News Also Means Saving the Archives”
From Poynter Institute:
In RJI’s 2021 report, “Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation,” the report’s authors write: “What if, because of the mind-boggling complexity of modern digital publishing systems, our first draft of history is dissolving? That’s the unfortunate fact of what’s happening right now in newsrooms across the country. Quietly, in the background of the news industry’s public struggles is a nearly invisible but dramatic decline in efforts to preserve our daily news. In the rush to get the news out, with shrinking resources in the face of expanding competition, today’s newsrooms are finding it difficult to devote money or staff time to what seems like an insurmountably daunting effort to save its growing array of digital news content.”
It’s been more than a decade since Edward McCain, who worked as the digital curator of journalism at RJI and the University of Missouri Libraries, started sounding the alarm about the issue.
“I still think we have a long way to go,” he said. “There continues to be a decent amount of support for digitizing. There’s still not nearly enough funding and support for born-digital news content and the preservation of that content. I just don’t think it has really sunk in that, in my mind, the digital work is more fragile, it’s more ephemeral, than the printed pages.”
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Several projects are approaching preserving an array of local news archives in different ways.
“Moving image archivists have been studying and working to address this problem for decades,” said Becca Bender with Channel US, which grew out of the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ work. “And in some ways, the game keeps changing because stations are being sold. It’s a moving target, and that’s one of the things that makes it so challenging from a preservation standpoint.”
As more local television stations merge into bigger and bigger corporations, “there’s an even greater urgency to say this is the history of these local communities and it is no longer owned by local entities.”
The Archival Producers Alliance is working to “restore, preserve, and provide access to local television news archives across the United States,” according to its site.
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Editor’s Note: Prepared for DrWeb’s Domain by Claude. Next report will be end of April. -–DrWeb. Note the Time window: Mid-February 2026 through end of March 2026. Data current as of April 9, 2026.
The Numbers
The approval data in Chart 1 below tells a stark story. As of the end of March, no major pollster had Trump above 44 percent, and most placed him between 35 and 37 percent approval — with disapproval running as high as 62 percent (CNN/SSRS, March 26–30).
The CNN Poll of Polls average landed at 37 approve / 61 disapprove, a net of -24. That is not a blip. It reflects a sustained slide that began at the start of his second term, when Trump entered office at roughly 47 percent approval, and has moved consistently downward since.
The economy is the engine driving those numbers. CNN/SSRS found Trump’s approval on the economy at a career low of 31 percent, and his approval on inflation at just 27 percent — down from 44 percent a year ago. Roughly two-thirds of Americans now say his policies have made economic conditions worse, a 10-point increase since January. With the Iran war pushing gas above $4 a gallon nationally and the CBO projecting higher inflation through 2029 partly due to tariffs, voters are connecting their kitchen-table frustrations directly to presidential decisions.
Critically, the erosion is not confined to Democrats and independents. The Economist/YouGov found that among 2024 Trump voters, strong approval dropped 15 points in just three weeks — from 84 percent approving in early March to 76 percent by month’s end. Republicans who strongly approve fell from 52 percent in January to 43 percent by the CNN/SSRS poll. When a president starts losing altitude with his own base, it creates a very different kind of political environment heading into a midterm year.
What the Prediction Markets Are Saying
Chart 2 shows the Polymarket prediction market odds as of April 9, 2026 — and they are the most lopsided readings of this midterm cycle so far.
Traders are pricing Democrats as 87 percent favorites to flip the House, with Republicans at just 13 percent. The Senate is considerably tighter, with Democrats at 53 percent and Republicans at 47 percent — reflecting the difficult map Democrats face defending seats in Georgia, Michigan, and other competitive states even as the political environment tilts their way.
These are sentiment indicators, not polls — real money is behind them, but they move with the news cycle and should be read alongside traditional surveys rather than in place of them. That said, the scale of the House number is notable. The generic congressional ballot — where Democrats currently lead by roughly 6 points in most aggregates — combined with redistricting changes in California, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas, gives that 87 percent figure more grounding than it might otherwise have.
The Bigger Picture Heading into Spring
Historical patterns are worth keeping in mind here. In 2006, George W. Bush sat at roughly 38 percent approval as the Iraq war dragged on — and Republicans lost 30 House seats and 6 Senate seats, flipping both chambers. In 2018, Trump was at about 41 percent approval and lost 40 House seats. New district-level estimates now show Trump’s approval below 50 percent among registered voters in 135 Republican-held congressional seats — 104 in the House, 31 in the Senate. That is the structural danger Republicans are sitting in right now.
Democrats are not without their own challenges. Party approval is still low in absolute terms — CNN found the Democratic Party itself at just 28 percent approval. The generic ballot lead of D+6, while meaningful, is not yet wave territory on its own. The out-party typically gains another 5 points between spring and Election Day in midterm cycles; if that pattern holds, November could look very different from today. But the conditions have to hold — and a lot can change between now and then.
What is clear right now: the 2026 midterms are shaping up as a direct referendum on a second-term president whose approval has fallen nearly 8 points since January 2025, whose base is showing unusual cracks, and whose signature issues — prices, the economy, foreign policy — are all running negative in the polls. The charts above capture that moment in the data. We will update them monthly as the cycle develops.
Updated monthly until midterms in November, 2026.
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Donald Trump’s US ratings fall to a record low amid Iran war
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United States President Donald Trump’s net approval has fallen to a record low on the Iran war, while Democrats had a 25-point swing in their favor in a federal special election. On current polling, Democrats are likely to win the US House but not the Senate at midterm elections this November.
In analyst Nate Silver’s aggregate of US national polls, Trump’s net approval has dropped 4.1 points since March 5 to -16.9, with 56.5% disapproving and 39.5% approving.
Trump’s net approval is at a record low, below his previous lows of -15.0 in November 2025 and February. It’s also below what any past president since Harry Truman had at this point in their term, with Trump during his first term the closest at -12.8.
On four issues tracked by Silver, Trump’s net approval is -10.7 on immigration, -21.8 on the economy, -24.2 on trade and -33.6 on inflation. The Iran war has caused a slump for Trump recently on the economy, trade and inflation but not immigration.
Silver also has an aggregate of US support for the Iran war. Net support had fallen to a low of -18.1 on April 4, but has recovered to -15.1 now, with 53.8% opposed to the Iran war while 38.7% support it.
The polls will not have caught up to the ceasefire announcement between the US and Iran on Wednesday EST. But the benchmark US S&P 500 stock market index was up 2.5% in last night’s trading session. Since a low on March 30, the S&P has surged 6.9% and is now only 2.3% below its peak in the week before the Iran war began.
Trump is likely to recover some ground on the stock market surge, particularly if fuel prices fall back. I believe as long as nothing goes badly wrong with the US stock market or the overall US economy, Trump will not become very unpopular.
Democrats have big swing in Georgia
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At the March 10 jungle primary for this seat, a Republican and a Democrat had qualified. At the 2024 presidential election, Trump had defeated Democrat Kamala Harris by 37 points in Georgia 14.
While the Republican won by 55.9–44.1, this 12-point Republican margin was a 25-point drop from Trump’s 2024 margin. I also covered a Wisconsin Supreme Court election which the left-wing judge won by 20 points. Wisconsin voted for Trump by 0.9 points in 2024.
This Poll Bludger post covered the results of recent European elections and the upcoming Hungarian election on Sunday and three Canadian by elections on Monday.
See Also: https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker. Chart embedded below:
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Guest: John Carreyrou, an investigative reporter for The New York Times’s business section.
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