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Thursday, December 10, 2020

No Word Is Bad News


Wikipedia's List of Defunct Newspapers of the United States includes the names of over 1,000 newspapers which are no longer inwards print. Many of these papers collapsed decades ago. However a large proportion of these newspapers are victims of the loss of 50% of impress paper readers inwards the final xx years.

The Republic of Colombia Journalism Review's map of America's Growing News Deserts shows the discover of local newspapers left inwards each county inwards the United States. The choropleth layer on the map shows the discover of daily newspapers inwards each county. It reveals that a lot of counties no longer bring a unmarried local paper inwards print.

The information for the map comes from 2015. The Republic of Colombia Journalism Review is currently working on updating the information for the map. It is hence slap-up to require heed if whatever local newspapers are missing from their database or if the map includes newspapers which no longer be (contact details for the CJR tin hold out institute inwards the map's accompanying article).