American journalism is at a transformational moment, in which an era of dominant newspapers is rapidly giving way to one in which the gathering and distribution of news is more widely dispersed. As is the case with regional newspapers in Britain, the economic foundations of many of the 1,400 local daily newspapers in the US, long supported by advertising, are collapsing. Their news staffs and printed editions, which have been the chief source of original news reporting – in print and online – are shrinking.
美國新聞業處在轉型時刻。一個報紙占主導地位的時代正迅速讓位於新聞的採集和傳播都更爲分散的新時代。與英國地方性報紙的遭遇一樣，在美國的1400家地方日報中，許多報紙長期靠廣告支撐財務基礎，而今這一基礎正在瓦解。它們的新聞團隊和紙質出版物，一直是紙媒及在線原創新聞報導的主要來源，而今兩者的規模都在縮減。
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