Newspaper Readership

Andrew Van Dam at WP: Of those who still read newspapers, Democrats made up a narrow majority in the 1990s and early 2000s, but their lead has turned into a rout. Now, among people who read the paper multiple times a week, Democrats outnumber Republicans by more than...

Subscriptions and Owners

Howard French at Foreign Policy: Since Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, blocked the publication’s endorsement of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris, more than 250,000 people have canceled their subscriptions.   In the wake of Bezos’s...

Updating the Map of News Deserts

Dan Kennedy: If there is an ur-source of data about the extent of the local news crisis, it is surely the map of news deserts compiled by journalism researcher Penelope Abernathy. First at the University of North Carolina and more recently at Northwestern University’s...