Company announcements, product updates, and behind-the-scenes looks at how Mercury Local is reinventing hyper-local media. Think of it as our press room—minus the press release fluff.
Charlotte Mercury debuts today, promising audits, open ledgers, and civic-grade reporting, while most chains bleed out local news. Here is how we’ll build in full view of the audience.
Private-equity raids turn watchdogs into ghost papers. Here’s the debt-to-dividend playbook and the data behind 2,500 vanished U.S. newspapers since 2005.
Interruptive ads once bankrolled local news. Big Tech swallowed the model, CPMs cratered, and hedge funds finished the job. Here’s how attention merchants gutted hometown papers—and what’s next.
Hedge-fund math turned proud metro dailies into “ghost papers” that publish wire copy and obits—leaving city halls unwatched and voters uninformed.
Why do some Charlotte suburbs hear crickets, not city hall? Discover how news deserts form, why they hollow communities, and what Mercury Local plans to do about it.
Google Isn’t a Search Engine Anymore “AI Armageddon” Arrives Isabella Simonetti and Katherine Blunt opened Today’s Wall Street Journal report with a blunt verdict: the “AI armageddon is here for online news publishers.” Chatbots now sit atop results, answering questions outright, siphoning clicks from the blue links that once paid newsrooms’ bills. HuffPost’s organic search traffic “fell by just over … Read more
Welcome to Mercury Local, the team behind some of Charlotte’s most essential local newsletters—Strolling Ballantyne and coming soon Queen City Express. As part of the larger Charlotte Mercury ecosystem, we are redefining what local journalism looks like in the digital age. What We Do Mercury Local is more than just a publishing company—it’s a community-first news network that keeps Charlotteans informed, … Read more