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 | Oct 26, 2021 | Conservative', Journalism, Journalists
Anthony Hennen at National Review: First, conservatives need to read more local and state news and less national news. The outrage rags are popular, but they do little beyond ginning up anger and funneling cash to political actors. Local journalists need support....
by jpitney | Jun 13, 2021 | Business, Mass Media, Newspapers
\ Jack Shafer at Politico: In 2009, just as the apocalypse befell the newspaper industry but while local news was still in relative abundance, many readers gave it an apathetic shrug. A Pew Research Center survey from that year found that an astonishing 42 percent...
by jpitney | May 23, 2021 | Mass Media, Newspapers
Mason Walker and Katerina Eva Matsa at Pew: Staff layoffs continued to pummel the beleaguered U.S. newspaper industry in 2020. A third of papers with an average Sunday circulation of 50,000 or more experienced layoffs last year, a period complicated by the impact of...
by jpitney | Mar 29, 2020 | California Politics, Coronavirus, Newspapers
Previous posts have discussed the crisis in local news. Steven Waldman and Charles Sennott at The Atlantic: In this moment, the bottom is falling out economically for local news organizations. Those small businesses in your town that are closing left and right? They...
