Newspaper circulation, revenue, and staff collapsed sharply since 2014

Evidence

In the most recent Pew Research Center “State of the News Media” report from 2016, they give the full nightmare: … For newspapers, 2015 might as well have been a recession year. Weekday circulation fell 7% and Sunday circulation fell 4%, both showing their greatest declines since 2010. At the same time, advertising revenue experienced its greatest drop since 2009, falling nearly 8% from 2014 to 2015. … The newspaper workforce has shrunk by about 20,000 position, or 39%, in the last 20 years. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 185

Categorization

• XREF: Empirical grounding for the earlier ch9 claim that reporting routines and profitability pressures degraded fact-based journalism; these are the numbers behind ‘60 Minutes proved news could profit’. — connects to: The wire service model created journalism’s objectivity ideal; American newspaper circulation dropped almost seventy percent between 1950 and 2010 — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 125