An estimated 136 newspapers have closed during the past year. News deserts are expanding and traffic to some of the top newspaper websites has been declining over the past few years.

The shutdowns of the Dearborn Press & Guide, Tribune of Royal Oak and Voice of New Baltimore are part of a larger pattern of ...

WINSLOW, Ariz. — It’s no secret that small-town newspapers are struggling to survive in the digital age. Across the United States, hundreds of local papers have folded in recent years, leaving behind ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — A dozen recently shuttered newspapers across Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again, after buyers stepped up within days to prevent the rural communities from ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Dozens of communities in the Midwest and West learned Thursday they had lost their newspapers after an Illinois-based publisher announced it would abruptly close because of ...

This change aims to optimize resources as digital readership grows and emphasizes the print edition's in-depth local content. Gannett, the paper's parent company, is implementing this model in ...

This article was originally published by Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative and is republished here with permission. Two days after Tom Wiley joined the National Trust for Local ...

WINSLOW, Ariz. — It’s no secret that small-town newspapers are struggling to survive in the digital age. Across the United States, hundreds of local papers have folded in recent years, leaving behind ...