Regardless of ideology are there any newspapers thriving? Our local paper, the Southeast Missourian is down, to 3 print issues per week. The ‘big’ Saturday (no Sunday paper) is smaller than what used to be issued on weekdays. Not only are there fewer pages, the pages are much smaller than they used to be.
The Southeast Missourian began publication on October 3, 1904 as The Daily Republican.
The newspaper changed its name to the Southeast Missourian in 1918.
It is the flagship publication of Rust Communications.
Printed paper will not last but that is not what is killing local papers. There was a time when they were the only game in town so the leftists in Boston could write the same story as the leftist in LA and sell it to a captive market. Now that anyone can get news from any location they have to compete with eachother. Since the stories are the same who needs two sources. The employees have an even worse prognosis because, having been trained to do nothing but aggregate and regurgitate leftist agitprop, they are incapable of creating original content. Aggregating and regurgitating is exactly what AI does, cheaper and better than they can.