Guest Columnist

ND Newspapers Didn’t Need a Pandemic

After losing three weeklies and experiencing painful belt-tightening all across the industry, North Dakota didn’t need a pandemic to push local newspapers closer to the brink.

Subscribers have been complaining loudly about the constant cutbacks – smaller papers, less news, diminished features and less local coverage. There is no joy in the editor’s office, either.

Newspapers have been hemorrhaging a…