One of the worst affected industries during the coronavirus outbreak has been, ironically, a profession that should have been reporting on it.
Scores of newspapers have laid off staff, or closed entirely, in the past four months, in what one expert has predicted will be an “extinction-level†event for the industry. The more recent cuts come to an industry which has long been in decline, robbing large swathes of the US of news coverage, and it’s the state of journalism.
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