Are Newspapers Becoming Extinct

What Happened to News Outlets

Over the past two years, newspapers continue to vanish at an average rate of more than two per week, leaving two hundred and four US countries or 6.4 % without and news outlets.

Roughly, half of al United States counties (1,563), are now only served with one remaining local news source, typically a weekly newspaper.

If the trends continues, a third or newspapers weill be lost by sometime in 2025. If you look around your neighborhood and observe how many people get their newspapers delivered. Twenty years ago you'd see parctically one on every doorstep. Unfortunately, times are changing. The internet, along with mass media, social media and blogs have diminished the necessity of newspapers in our lives.

We get our information from other digital sources, which is clear from the drip in newspaper revenue. Studies ha e shown that nearly two-thirds of newspaper ad revenue has dried up over the past ten years, and circultions has fallen by a third. Experts do think it will hang in there longer than expected, but the digital drain will ultimately lead to its demise.

What started the Demise of Newspapers worldwide

Some of it can be chalked up to the economic impact of the pandemic. The decline of newspapers in the twenty-first century, especially in the United States and Europe is due to popularity, and sales are wavering. In these regions industry is facing slumping ad sales, the loss of much classified advertising and increased drop in circulation.

Why Are Newspapers Shutting Down

One is a wave of independently owned newspapers that have finally given up after years of struggling with pandemic era economic stressors.

The other is large newspaper newspaper chains selling off or closing properties in the face of declining revenues and large debt burdens.

Local journalism is all but dying. Northwestern University news initiative found that there is little to no reliable local news reporting in over half of the counties in the United States.

In responding to a survery of adults in the United States, sixty five and older, on metro media activities, found these statistics. Adults sixty-five and above were the most likely to buy physical newspapers, with thirty-seven percent they did buy them.

News outlets struggling to compete are becoming a pay to read outlet. Have you ever started reading a news article only to get part way through it and have it burred out and then tell you that you have to have a subscription to continue, and read the entire article

That is to encourage you to buy a subscription to whatever news outlet you are reading. That appears to be part of the revenue stream that that most news outlets depend on, now that ad revenue is drying up.

AI

We all know what that is, Artificial Intelligence, yes, folks the computer that is slated to take the place of human beings in our society.

News organizations are braced for multiple challenges in 2025 that will most likely include further attacks from hostile politicaina, continued economic headwinds, and battles to protect intellectual property in the face of AI-driven platform. Changes in search will become a major grievance for a news industry that has already lost social traffic and fears a further decline in visibility as AI interfaces start to generate "story like" answers to news queries.

Is Artificial Intelligence good for the economy in general. Is it good for the news media. Some media bans the use of Artificial Intelligence, some allow it as long as you identify it as such

I have my own opinions about it, of course I am 74 years old, and perhaps I am a bit old school. I know our automated teller at our bank has been called every name in the book, by so many people. His name is "Bo", and Bo and I never did get along. I keep saying to him, "Bo- work with me here, give me a break, connect me to someone with a pulse, and when that doesn't work, I admit, I start calling him names".

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