Do you have a chart showing local papers vs big city papers? I’m thinking local papers are not suffering as much, because local news isn’t covered by websites and wire services as much. Local papers have school sports, local ads, and other items that maintain readers. I get the local paper on thurs and sun. I like it. And anyway, my rabbits and guinea pigs need SOMETHING to crap on!
The big metro papers are hurting badly, but even the small community papers are ill. I posted a story last week in a thread about some community publisher (can’t recall the name) filing bankruptcy.
If you google the term fas-fax, that will bring up the circulation number that are published twice a year.
It could be that the reason the big papers seem in worse shape is that they had farther to fall. The small papers never grew exponentially like the big ones did.
Including obituaries. Elderly readers are likely to subscribe to a print newspaper for the obituaries if for no other reason.
Unfortunately for the print media that anchor reader group is disappearing for the same reason that it kept its subscriptions in the first place.