The closure of the newspaper’s chain of newspapers leaves dozens of societies without a source of news

Dozens of societies in the Middle West and the West learned on Thursday that they lost their newspapers after an Illinois -based publisher announced that they would suddenly close due to financial problems.

News Media Corp, which owns local newspapers in five states, said it will close 14 operations in Wyoming, seven in Illinois, five in Arizona, four in South Dakota and one in Nebraska.

The closure of NMC, which describes itself as “the voice of a small town America”, has long affecting newspapers, which often was the main source of news in many small cities, which leads to a poor problem of newspapers news in rural areas.

The closure follows a decades -long pattern Financial challenges For local newspapers-the United States has lost more than a third of its printed newspapers and two-thirds of the newspapers in the newspapers since 2004, where the media has struggled to adopt a variable scene of readers and revenues, according to the Medll Local News initiative at Northwestern University.

Unfortunately, due to the financial challenges, a major economic shrinkage that affects our industry, revenue losses, increased expenditures, and the recent failure in trying to sell the company as a continuous martyr, we reached a point where continuous work is no longer possible, “JJ Tombkins, in a letter to employees on Wednesday.

Its headquarters is located at News Media Corp in Roshil, Illinois.

Hundreds of employees were immediately terminated, and Tombins wrote that the company will make “reasonable efforts to pay all the remaining compensation for you.”

The employees moved to social media to express their shock and disappointment in the news.

“Nobody knew in Horon, nor any other papers, that this will come today,” said Benjamin Chase, editor -in -chief of Horon Blinsmann Editor in South Dakota. “We are all shocking and trying to know how to go forward.”

“It is not a secret that it is difficult there for all printed media, and we are no exception,” wrote Josh Linihhan, the editor -in -chief of Brookings record in South Dakota, in a letter to readers."

He added: “But we do not make mistakes – we are closed at the present time as a result of the weakness of the corporate management.”

News Media Corp did not respond to a comment.

The mayor of Brookings Obi Nemere said that the closure of his city newspaper “divorced” leaves a large hole in society. He said that he was a devastation for newspaper employees, city defects, the boycott committee and other local councils that used the newspaper for legal notifications.

He said less than a year ago, Brookings lost news on a local radio station, which now left the newspaper.

“It is clear that we all have websites, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and all of that, but there is a generation that does not use it,” said Neumir, who prefers to be in 65 years.

I love the newspaper’s comment to boost conversations. He said that the journalists did a great job to tell readers of what is going on in Brookings, a city with about 25,000 people.

“It brings together society together,” the mayor said. “It is an undesirable entity.”

The reasons behind the closure of newspapers are complicated, with multiple factors in play. She said that the newspaper industry used a two -year -old business model of two centuries and is not sustainable in 2025.

Feneman said the audience also has a greater hesitation in paying the price of local news, and a very small number of subscribers are paying very low prices, and that the lack of social cohesion in the United States has led to cracking and lack of confidence in the news. She said that this was associated with the decrease in the population in many rural areas and the ownership of companies that are often unfamiliar in managing these papers.

“This must be an invitation to wake up to every city in this nation, your newspaper can be in danger, as well as the things that people must start supporting their newspapers through subscriptions and through advertising if we will maintain the critical news in these societies,” he said.

On Thursday, the Six Falls -based Dakota Scott newspaper said it was planning to expand the coverage in Brookings in response to the closure.