By ALLISON RIDGWAY Staff reporter July 19, 2018 The relationship between local charities and news, an app that tracks the diversity of local news sources, and the use of crowd-sourcing to track changes to local news organizations are among the ideas discussed in a new publication from Ryerson Journalism Research Centre (RJRC). The groundbreaking online multimedia journal published in early June combines academic papers, videos and a podcast to explore the decline of local news. “We wanted to create content that will draw in readers who may otherwise get turned off by seeing a long academic article that some people…