The newspaper business has been dying for 20 years. The Internet greatly accelerated their demise, by opening up new ways for advertisers to seek out consumers.

Then, about 2005, the newspapers started shifting in who they employed. Gone were the days when they would hire actual reporters who used connections and shoe leather to get a story, and instead they were hiring J-school majors right out of college.

Well, long story short, the new generation of "journalists" (as they now wanted to be called) decided that it was a smart business model to push "narratives" in their stories instead of facts, and that it would also be a wise business decision to insult at least half of their readership.

The results were a further decline in the newspaper business; fewer pages were printed in each edition, and various bureaus were closed in favor of "pooled" reporting from distant sources (eg, overseas, war zones, DC, etc).

Now, most people get their news delivered through some social media or aggregation platform (eg, Facebook, Google, Apple, etc)  and the subscriber base for newspapers has collapsed. 

Here's an analysis with some very pretty graphs that show how the newspaper business is dying - and it isn't a recent decline. It's been building for awhile:

https://www.journalism.org/fact-sheet/newspapers/