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Newspaper closures

May 2024

  • The sign for the Barrier Daily Truth newspaper in the west NSW town of Broken Hill, Sunday, July 8, 2018. The Barrier Truth started in 1898 as a weekly English language news sheet. Initially it was printed in Adelaide until 1898 and it began to be printed locally in Broken Hill. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    The rural network
    From mining to Meta: the slow decline of Broken Hill’s only newspaper

    The NSW town’s 126-year-old Barrier Daily Truth closed its doors last month – and more regional newsrooms could follow without funding certainty

  • The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban? – documentary

    The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist
  • Guardian Documentary, 'House No.30, Kabul' featuring Zaki Daryabi, the founder of the Afghan newspaper, The Etilaat Roz

    The Guardian documentary
    Can journalism survive the Taliban?

    The Etilaat Roz was once the most widely circulated newspaper in Kabul, but everything changed in August 2021 when the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. In this unique video diary, journalist Abbas Rezaie follows the tenacious correspondents as they continue to report the news. We witness a turning point in Afghanistan’s history, and reflect on what it is to be a displaced journalist.

April 2024

  • Barrier Daily Truth newspaper

    ‘A lot of stories that will now go untold’: outback NSW newspaper closes after almost 130 years

    Broken Hill’s only newspaper, The Barrier Truth, closes due to cashflow problems, with staffer saying loss is ‘really sad for the community’

March 2024

  • A stack of old newspapers

    ‘The final act’: fears US journalism crisis could destabilize 2024 election

    Job losses, declining circulations and local newspaper closures could mean spread of misinformation in pivotal election year

July 2023

  • Stack of old newspapers bound with string ready for recycling.

    Longest-running southern California newspaper closes after 168 years

  • The last edition of Wiener Zeitung is printed in Vienna

    World’s oldest national newspaper prints final edition after 320 years

April 2023

  • Michael Waite, proprietor of the Naracoorte News.

    Dozens of independent newspapers launched during Covid in Australia. What happened next?

    After crowdfunding campaigns, first editions and pandemic, are the startups thriving, barely surviving or sadly dying?

June 2022

  • Gary Younge and Dan Chung on the road. Local newspapers for sale in newspaper dispensers in the town of Salina, Utah, USA. Denver to Las Vegas by road. Photo by Dan Chung *This image is raw*

    Newspapers in US closing at rate of two a week despite efforts to halt trend

    Areas without a reliable source of local news tend to be poorer, older and less educated than those covered well

September 2021

  • Police outside Next Digital’s offices in Hong Kong in June

    Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong media group files for liquidation

    Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staff

May 2020

  • Jane Martinson

    BuzzFeed's retreat shows that global as well as local news is under threat

    Jane Martinson
  • Baltimore, Maryland, USA cityscape at Mt. Vernon and the Washington Monument.<br>HE3FJN Baltimore, Maryland, USA cityscape at Mt. Vernon and the Washington Monument.

    Baltimore Sun looks to non-profit status to stay afloat amid coronavirus threat

April 2020

  • Characters from shows that are being delayed or cancelled due to coronavirus

    Covid-19 leaves news and entertainment industries reeling

    TV audiences are at Christmas levels, and news website figures sky high, but with few ads or new shows there are fears for the future
  • Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News

    Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News to close and staff laid off

    Sources say staff have been told parent company has run out of money during UK lockdown
  • Art Cullen is editor and co-owner of the Storm Lake Times with his brother, John, publisher, and son Tom, a reporter.

    The newspaper industry was already faltering. Will coronavirus obliterate it?

    Art Cullen
    “We have been able to hang on by our ink-stained fingernails,” writes Art Cullen, editor of Iowa’s Storm Lake Times

December 2019

  • Kenan Malik

    The sick boy, the ‘punch’: the local can still capture the national picture

    Kenan Malik
    From regional papers to national TV, fact checking has never been more important in speaking truth to power

September 2019

  • A printer watches over a newspaper press in 1935.

    Final editions: why no local news is bad news

  • Emily Bell

    Is big tech's move to fund local news a cynical ploy?

    Emily Bell

July 2019

  • Craig Newmark: ‘I’m a nerd that stayed true to his nerditude.’

    The G2 interview
    Craigslist's Craig Newmark: 'Outrage is profitable. Most online outrage is faked for profit'

    The founder of the online classifieds site is a survivor from the era of internet optimism. He has given significant sums to protect the future of news – and rejects the idea his website helped cause journalism’s financial crisis

June 2019

  • A car ferry arrives at Rothesay, Isle of Bute.

    Bute loses the newspaper that was at the island’s heart for 165 years

    Many will mourn the closure of the Buteman. But a former editor says that, like many local papers, it had lost its identity after years of cuts
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