Read & weep: We knew the coronavirus downturn was bad for local newspapers but here’s the numbers. From an already disastrous level in 2019’s second quarter to same in 2020, ad revenue down (median) 42 percent. Absolutely brutal and devastating.
And yet these local papers have done essential reporting in the virus for their regions. It is a cruel paradox.
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I don’t know how these papers are even functioning and yet they remain utterly essential. Many regional papers which had 200-300 newsroom staff are down to 50 or fewer.
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