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One-third of U.S. newspapers as of 2005 will be gone by 2024
- MilnerRoute 3y ago"Of the papers that still survive, a majority (4,790) publish weekly, not daily." "A coalition of non-partisan philanthropies plans to commit more than $500 million over the next five years to initiatives that support local journalism."
- heroprotagonist 3y agoThis analysis is missing the amalgamation of these news outlets over the same time period. A better statistic would be the number remaining which have NOT been purchased and added to the collection of some larger entity. Without researching it at all, I'd hypothesize a similar trend to the consolidation of local broadcast outlets by Sinclair: https://www.vice.com/en/article/gymdbq/sinclair-broadcasting-media-consolidation-regulations https://www.vice.com/en/article/gymdbq/sinclair-broadcasting... If we treat newspapers owned by the same company as a single entity, how many independent voices actually remain? I suspect the result is very different from 2/3.