I used to be a daily reader of two newspapers. I loved the Sunday papers. The last time I read a newspaper, some years ago, I was totally put off by the experience. It was on cheap paper. It was smaller than newspapers of the past, so I found it awkward to hold. My hands were just not far enough apart. It had more ads than news. The news stories I read were poorly-written. I’ll pass.
I know a guy who went to work for a large newspaper right out of high school (not sure how he landed that job as he did not even have a college degree). He ended up becoming one of their most prominent reporters and columnists for the next couple of decades.
Then financial reality hit the newspaper business and they laid him off. The paper has since ceased publishing. I have absolutely no idea what he’s doing these days as his whole life had been writing for a newspaper. Unemployed newspaper columnists without a degree don’t have a lot of good options.