---
title: "State of the News Media 2009: Newspapers"
description: "The newspaper industry exited a harrowing 2008 and entered 2009 in something perilously close to free fall.  Perhaps some parachutes will deploy, and maybe some tree limbs will cushion the descent, but for a third consecutive year the bottom is not in sight."
date: "2009-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff"
    job_title: "Guest Contributor"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2009/03/19/state-of-the-news-media-2009-newspapers/"
categories:
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# State of the News Media 2009: Newspapers