by jpitney | Jul 13, 2023 | Journalism, Journalists, Local Government, Mass Media, Newspapers
Could News Bloom in News Deserts? By Howard Husock American Enterprise Institute Key Points Due to the steady decline of print news in America, many Americans now live in news deserts, where there is no newspaper covering local issues. The absence of information on...
by jpitney | Oct 16, 2022 | Journalism, Newspapers
Rachyl Jones at The Observer: Gannett, publisher of USA Today and hundreds of other newspapers, is instituting major cost cutting measures amid a “deteriorating macroeconomic environment,” CEO Mike Reed said in an internal memo obtained by the New York Times. The...
by jpitney | Oct 12, 2022 | Journalism, Newspapers
Penelope Muse Abernathy and Tim Franklin, “The State of Local News 2022” (Northwestern Univerity, Medill School, October 4, 2022). Newspapers are continuing to vanish at a rapid rate. An average of more than two a week are disappearing. Since 2005, the...
by jpitney | Dec 1, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
Margaret Sullivan at WP: Already in a sharp downward spiral, the local news industry was hit hard by the covid-19 pandemic. The worst blows were taken by newspapers — businesses that, as a group, had never recovered from the digital revolution and the 2008 recession....
by jpitney | Oct 16, 2021 | Journalism, Journalists, Newspapers
McKay Coppins at The Atlantic: What threatens local newspapers now is not just digital disruption or abstract market forces. They’re being targeted by investors who have figured out how to get rich by strip-mining local-news outfits. The model is simple: Gut the...
