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The newspaper industry has always been cyclical, and the industry has weathered previous troughs. Television's arrival in the 1950s began the decline of newspapers as most people's source of daily news. But the explosion of the Internet in the 1990s increased the range of media choices available to the average reader while further cutting into ...
This is a list of defunct newspapers of the United States. Only notable names among the thousands of such newspapers are listed, primarily major metropolitan dailies which published for ten years or more. [inconsistent] The list is sorted by distribution and state and labeled with the city of publication if not evident from the name.
The total number of newspapers in the U.S. fell from 8,891 in 2004 to 7,112 in 2018, a decline of 1,779 newspapers, including more than 60 daily newspapers. [6] Of the remaining publications, an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 newspapers were considered ghost newspapers after scaling back their news coverage so much that they were unable to fully ...
Doug Hensley's column looks at the recently released State of Local News 2022 report from Northwestern University
Axios reports, for example, that the decline of local newspapers accelerated so rapidly in 2023 that analysts now believe that by next year, the United States will have lost one-third of the ...
Newspaper readership goes up with education, and education levels are rising. That favorable trend is offset by the choice of people in each age group to read fewer papers. [103] The decline in readership and revenues continued steadily by year after that. American dailies lost 60% of their ad revenue--$30 billion—between 2005 and 2014.
A report in 2009 highlighted the decline of newspaper circulation as figures showed that the industry as a whole sold fewer newspapers than at any other time since the 1940s. [2] Within the report, free online content and business models were blamed for their part in the downturn; an opinion in agreement with Murdoch's article.
Doug Hensley's column looks at the implications of the recently released State of Local News report 2022 from Northwestern University