COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW – 11/03/2020
Ryan Binkley and Francis Wick
YOU MAY HAVE recently learned—from a newspaper, perhaps—that McClatchy, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the country, filed for bankruptcy protection. For the sky-is-falling industry observers, it’s the latest sign that newspapers are joining the horse and buggy in the broom closet of nostalgia and obscurity. There is no room for the printed news, they would tell you. Not in a world where splitting a grubhub is a hot date.