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Newspapers endure more cuts, hope for brighter future online

By DAMIAN J. TROISE and wrote.
DEE-ANN DURBIN, AP Busi- Where have all those jour-
ness Writers nalists gone? In some cas-
U.S. newspapers are bat- es, they are starting up
tered and broken, and this online newspapers of their
week's layoffs at the New own in an effort to keep
York Daily News serve as local newsgathering alive
the latest blow. But while and flourishing.
local newsgathering has Take Berkeleyside, an on-
taken a hit, some observers line newspaper in Berkeley,
think it's poised for a digital California, that began in
comeback. 2009, when the San Jose
Media company Tronc Inc. Mercury News stopped
cut half of the Daily News' covering the city. So far
newsroom staff Monday, this year, Berkeleyside says
including the paper's edi- it has averaged 900,000
tor in chief. The remaining pageviews and 270,000
staff, the company said, unique visitors each month.
will focus on breaking news In Charlottesville, Virginia,
involving "crime, civil justice there's an online newspa-
and public responsibility." per devoted to covering
The Pulitzer Prize-winning education, land use and
tabloid has been a fixture planning. In a rare bit of
in New York for the last cooperation, Charlottes-
century. Jere Hester, news ville's daily newspaper, The
director at the City Univer- Daily Progress, uses some
sity of New York Graduate Copies of the New York Daily News are for sale at a news stand in New York, Monday, July 23, of those online stories, said
School of Journalism and a 2018, after the paper told employees that the newspaper is reducing its editorial staff by 50 per- Matt DiRienzo, who runs
former staffer at the Daily cent. an organization called the
News, bemoaned the gut- Local Independent Online
ting of a watchdog in the monds, a media business Readers increasingly mi- tain News, folded in 2009. News Publishers.
nation's largest city. analyst at Poynter Institute. grated to the internet and More recently, newspa- DiRienzo said his group rep-
"Any time we lose a report- "We're starting to have a mobile apps and spent pers are reeling from tariffs resents 225 news outlets
er covering a neighbor- lot of places that are de- more hours on social media on Canadian newsprint in 45 states and Canada.
hood or City Hall, the city scribed as news deserts." such as Facebook. put in place in March by Membership has doubled
is greatly diminished for it. Concern about the lay- Over time, newspapers lost President Donald Trump's in the last two years, he
Bottom line is, when you offs extended beyond the two-thirds of their revenue, administration. Paul Tash, said. He predicts a "massive
don't have reporters out media business to people and they slashed jobs as chairman and CEO of Flori- decentralization" of local
there doing grunt work in who feared for a future a result, said Tim Franklin, da's largest newspaper, the journalism over the com-
the street, stories get lost," with fewer facts. New York the senior associate dean Tampa Bay Times, wrote in ing years. "As people real-
Hester said. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of Northwestern University's a recent editorial that the ize how important the news
The anguish in the world's urged Tronc to reconsider Medill School of Journalism. tariffs would add $3.5 mil- is to democratic institutions
media capital exemplifies the cuts, saying they were The Los Angeles Times lion per year to the paper's and local businesses, these
what's been happening in made without notifying once had more than 1,200 newsprint expenses if they kinds of things are going to
the rest of the country for the state or asking for assis- journalists and more than are made permanent. Al- bubble up," he said. "An
years. Estimated U.S. daily tance. 25 foreign bureaus. Now it ready, the paper has laid algorithm isn't going to re-
newspaper circulation, "I understand that large employs about 400 journal- off 50 people this year, Tash place local journalism."q
print and digital combined, corporations often only ists with bureaus in Sacra-
fell 11 percent to 31 million see profit and dividends as mento, Washington and a
in 2017, according to the a bottom line. But in New handful of foreign and na-
Pew Research Center. York, we also calculate loss tional outposts. Tronc sold
As recently as 2000, week- of an important institution, the newspaper to Dr. Pat-
day subscriptions totaled loss of jobs and the impact rick Soon-Shiong earlier this
55.8 million. In just the last on the families affected." year.
three years, employment The trend began more The Denver Post has been
in newsrooms has fallen 15 than a decade ago, when laying off staff for more
percent. car dealerships, real es- than a decade, with a 30
"We're seeing very steady tate companies and other percent reduction coming
pressure, wave after wave businesses moved online in April from current owner
of layoffs, which means less and stopped paying news- Digital First Media. Its one-
journalism," said Rick Ed- papers for classified ads. time rival, the Rocky Moun-