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Joshua BentonMay 7, 2024

This year’s Pulitzer Prizes were a coming-out party for online media — and a marker of local newspapers’ decline

For the first time ever, more online news sites produced Pulitzer finalists than newspapers did.

Corey HutchinsMarch 13, 2024

The National Trust for Local News buys a “mission-driven” printing press in Colorado

“Demand has gone down for printed newspapers, but the supply chain for providing newspapers in a printed format is collapsing faster than the natural interest in a printed newspaper.”

Andrew Donohue, Voice of San DiegoNovember 6, 2023

This is the beginning of the end for The San Diego Union-Tribune

Under new owner Alden Global Capital, there’s no plan for the future. There’s just revenue extraction for as long as a generation of older newspaper subscribers live to keep paying their bills.

Daniel Golden, ProPublicaOctober 16, 2023

Local newspapers are vanishing. How should we remember them?

As smaller newspapers shrink or disappear, it’s easy to romanticize the role they played. But one reporter’s memories of the heyday of local journalism reveal a much more complicated reality.

Joshua BentonJuly 17, 2023

The Los Angeles Times is definitely either for sale or not for sale

Despite denials, don’t be surprised if control passes from billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong sometimes soon. But it’s not necessarily bad news.

Laura Hazard OwenMarch 16, 2023

Amazon calls it quits on newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print

One Redditor: “I actually enjoy reading my local newspaper when it’s on the Kindle as opposed to the paper’s poorly designed website and frequently broken app.”

Gregory P. Perreault and Volha KananovichOctober 4, 2022

“Every four years we shoot ourselves in the foot”: Should news outlets still endorse political candidates?

Interviewing 64 U.S. political journalists, we found that many of them have come to view their outlets’ political endorsements as a liability.

Joshua BentonJune 28, 2022

For print newspapers, one Florida retirement community is a better market than Atlanta, St. Louis, or Portland

For local newspapers, print circulation has collapsed for every audience except retirees. That’s why the daily paper in The Villages, Florida (metro population 129,752) prints as many copies as the one in Atlanta (metro population 6,930,423).

Laura Hazard OwenJune 16, 2022

“Facebook has taken over”: How residents find local info when local newspapers aren’t doing the job

“A lot of it’s trash, to be honest, but a lot of it’s very useful.”

Joshua BentonNovember 22, 2021

The vulture is hungry again: Alden Global Capital wants to buy a few hundred more newspapers

This time it’s Lee Enterprises in the cross-hairs. Adding it to its empire would leave two American local newspaper giants — Gannett and Alden — and everyone else far behind.

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