In communities across the U.S., daily newspaper consumption has fallen year after year for the last three decades, leading to reduced circulation, fewer places to find a newspaper to purchase at a higher price, and layoffs that yesterday claimed Dave Hyde, a longtime sports reporter and columnist at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.
For some publications, obituaries remain an important income source. Now, however, those dollars could be lost to broadcast television and radio station ownership groups, too, thanks to a new service that both Sinclair Inc. and iHeartMedia have invested in.
