Crisis Blog Posts
The Costs of the Journalism Crisis
The bad news continues. Recent reports that the Bay State Banner, Boston’s only black-owned newspaper, was forced to take a city loan of $200,000 to stay afloat is further evidence that advertising no longer adequately supports newsgathering. It also shows the very real consequences of the journalism crisis, particularly for underrepresented communities.
In many cases, debt-laden chain newspapers and big metro dailies are hurting more than others. Yet it’s increasingly clear that the problems facing the press are systemic, with the same trends of disappearing ad revenue and lower circulation numbers affecting papers of varying sizes.
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