2 newspapers closing every week in USA leaving democratic deficit

Guardian. 'The country had 6,377 newspapers at the end of May, down from 8,891 in 2005, the report said. While the pandemic did not quite cause the reckoning that some in the industry feared, 360 newspapers have shut down since the end of 2019, all but 24 of them weeklies serving small communities.

An estimated 75,000 journalists worked in newspapers in 2006, and now that is down to 31,000, Northwestern said. Annual newspaper revenue slipped from $50bn to $21bn in the same period.'