The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, and the Journal Register, which is a regional network of suburban Philadelphia papers, like the Chester Daily Local News, the Trentonian, and the Phoenixville Phoenix, have all declared for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.
You knew this was going to happen the minute newspapers began posting their stories online for free. Paper Newspapers are going extinct. Within 5 years or less, there will no longer be daily paper newspapers. Indeed, I suspect a majority of the nation’s papers will not survive this Depression. In their place, local weekly community papers will survive for coverage of purely local news and events, while the big “papers” will go completely digital and completely premium. If you want to read the New York Times and the Inquirer online, you will have to buy a monthly or yearly subscription.