Total Number of Local U.S. Newspapers: 2005 and 2025
There has been a net loss of over 3,200 papers since 2005.
A bar chart showing the drop in total papers in the U.S. from 2005 to 2024. There has been a net loss of 3,300 papers since 2005, down to 5,591 in 2024 from 8,891 in 2005.
