> a successful turnaround that offers a glimmer of hope for the rest of the industry, which has laid off reams of journalists since the start of the year. Nati

> a successful turnaround that offers a glimmer of hope for the rest of the industry, which has laid off reams of journalists since the start of the year. National- and international-focused journalism is relatively healthy. It’s also the least important part of the news media. Doing great? No. Still kickin’? Yes. 2nd-tier and lower city papers, and small town local papers (and tv journalism, too)… those are mostly dead already. Slowly strangled to death by technology, bought by private equity and gutted, or scooped up into giant propagandist media empires that don’t care about local issues and journalism, but about laundering their national agenda through “neutral” local outlets as a kind of astroturfing-adjacent activity. Those were way more important, they’re already all but extinct, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to reverse the damage.