America's Tidings Deserts

Wikipedia's List of Defunct Newspapers of the United States includes the names of over 1,000 newspapers which are no longer inwards print. Many of these papers collapsed decades ago. However a large proportion of these newspapers are victims of the loss of 50% of impress paper readers inwards the end xx years.

Last yr the Republic of Colombia Journalism Review mapped out America's Growing News Deserts. Their map shows the release of local newspapers left inwards each county inwards the United States. One matter that the map reveals is that a lot of counties no longer convey a unmarried local paper inwards print.

Ohio University has straightaway released a novel interactive map which visualizes the circulation of daily newspapers in addition to the per centum of the population that subscribe to newspapers. The Media Deserts Map includes 2 choropleth layers. One layer shows the release of daily newspapers inwards a county in addition to the other shows the circulation penetration. Using the map it is possible to run across the release of daily newspapers inwards a county in addition to the percent of the population (over the historic current of 18) who are reading them.