Low pay, long hours, difficulty of obtaining employment, low long term stability of employment for most places. The state I used to live in had two newspapers

Low pay, long hours, difficulty of obtaining employment, low long term stability of employment for most places. The state I used to live in had two newspapers employing maybe 1000 people between them. Now, there is one newspaper that went bankrupt and lost the building they were in. For several months, there was no statewide newspaper. The bankrupt newspaper was resurrected and now employs less than 20 people, and is primarily an AP news reprinting service with two pages of local news on the weekend. I worked there one summer in college and briefly after college. I filled in on the city desk a few times, and it was an interesting experience putting out a good daily rag that had excellent content for the most part. The resurrected paper doesn't even have their own printing press anymore. A local print shop runs them out.