Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. In 2009, David Simon, the creator of HBO’s The Wire and a onetime crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun, told a Senate ...

Three metro Detroit newspapers are expected to cease publishing by the end of the month. The shutdowns are part of a larger pattern of vanishing newspapers nationwide. The perception of the dying ...

Newspapers write the stories of small towns. For generations, their newsprint has informed locals of goings on – of major events, of their leaders’ activities, but also just of daily life. They also ...