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Monday, December 30, 2024   

A new report finds Maryland has seen a small decline in the number of newspapers in the state this year.

The report is from the Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. It shows since 2005, more than 3,000 newspapers have shuttered nationally, and nearly 60% of all newsroom jobs have disappeared.

The report finds all counties in Maryland have at least one news organization, but experienced a 7% decline in daily and weekly newspapers.

Rebecca Snyder is the executive director of the Maryland, Delaware, and District of Columbia Press Association.

She said the number of reporters has been stable this year. But she said shrinking newsrooms do present some challenges.

"Shrinking newsrooms and the ability of people to find other news sources - whether they're credible or not," said Snyder, "plays into a general sense that public officials don't have to respond to Public Information Act requests."

Snyder said there are other issues, including government efforts to tax advertising revenue and moving estate notices out of local publications. She said such actions would hurt local news revenue.

Maryland has 37 newspapers across the state.

Nationally, more than 200 counties have no news outlets, and more than 1,500 counties only have one. That includes seven counties in Maryland.

Snyder pointed to the creation of the nonprofit Baltimore Banner and Baltimore Beat in recent years as bright spots. Other news outlets, she said, are leaning into their print newspapers.

Despite appearances, Snyder said journalism isn't facing a readership problem.

"We have more people consuming news," said Snyder. "What we have is the revenue issue. The price of a print ad is really dollars. The price of a digital ad is cents, and you cannot produce the quality journalism that democracy needs on cents."

Montgomery County and the City of Baltimore tied for the most publications in the state, with a total of 12 outlets in each of their communities.




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