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.
美国新闻业处在转型时刻。一个报纸占主导地位的时代正迅速让位于新闻的采集和传播都更为分散的新时代。与英国地方性报纸的遭遇一样，在美国的1400家地方日报中，许多报纸长期靠广告支撑财务基础，而今这一基础正在瓦解。它们的新闻团队和纸质出版物，一直是纸媒及在线原创新闻报道的主要来源，而今两者的规模都在缩减。
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