NEW YORK - Despite a growing recognition of the problem, the United States continues to see newspapers die at the rate of two per week, according to a r
Despite a growing recognition of the newspaper industry s problems among politicians and philanthropists, a new report says a downward trend continues. A report from Northwestern University says local newspapers in
Despite a growing recognition of the problem, the United States continues to see newspapers die at the rate of two per week, according to a report issued Wednesday on the state of local news.
The country had 6,377 newspapers at the end of May, down from 8,891 in 2005, the report said. While the pandemic didn't quite cause the reckoning that some in the industry feared, 360 newspapers have shut down since the end of 2019, all but 24 of them weeklies serving small communities