"Since 2005 one third of US newspapers have folded. Last year an average of 2.5 newspapers went under every week. More than half the counties in the country now have no or only one news outlet, and most of the surviving local dailies are on life support. Two thirds of newspaper journalism jobs have vanished since the Aughts, and more than 70,000 reporters have lost their positions since 2010. In January of this year alone more than 500 reporters were laid off. That same month Terry Tang became the Los Angeles Times's interim executive editor, the first female head editor in the paper's 142-year history-just as the Times announced it would be firing nearly a quarter of its news staff."
