---
title: "State of the News Media: Newspapers"
description: "Poynter Institute ethicist Kelly McBride was visiting former colleagues at the Spokane Spokesman-Review last summer, when the conversation slid into the how-bad-is-it? mode.  It has gotten so bad, one journalist said, that the independent contractors who deliver the paper are complaining that the Monday edition doesn’t have enough throw-weight to get all the way up the porch."
date: "2010-03-19"
authors:
  - name: "Pew Research Center: Journalism & Media staff"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2010/03/19/state-of-the-news-media-newspapers/"
categories:
  - "State of the News Media (Project)"
---

# State of the News Media: Newspapers