Thread by @HeathaT, Why aren’t newspapers getting fiscal relief ?https://twitter.com/jack_sommers/status/1247857861352394754 Does the journalism industry even [...]

Why aren’t newspapers getting fiscal relief ? https://twitter.com/jack_sommers/status/1247857861352394754

https://twitter.com/jack_sommers/status/1247857861352394754

Does the journalism industry even have a lobbying organization? Not tv infotainment journalism but local papers @LIONPubs @spj_tweets ?

Local newspaper “deserts” in the US have made it harder for the @CDCgov to track disease even before #coronavirus https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/20/news-deserts-infectious-disease/

As towns lose their newspapers, disease detectives are left to fly blind

The decline of the newspaper industry is shutting off an important valve of information for researchers who rely on it to track the spread of outbreaks.

https://www.statnews.com/2018/03/20/news-deserts-infectious-disease/

Newspapers lost 240,000 jobs from 2001 to 2017, more than five times the steel industry https://qz.com/1347153/trump-tariffs-if-donald-trump-wanted-to-save-more-american-jobs-hed-rescue-local-news/

If Trump really wanted to save US jobs, he’d rescue newspapers, not steel

Restoring US newspapers to 2001 levels would create 240,000 new jobs. Restoring steel: 44,000.

https://qz.com/1347153/trump-tariffs-if-donald-trump-wanted-to-save-more-american-jobs-hed-rescue-local-news/

Now they’re set to lose thousands or maybe tens of thousands more as ads plummet and hedge fund owners slash costs. @newsalliance

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