These are great photos. In a certain way, I think American newspapers and newsmagazines were two of the greatest legacies left by the US in its golden age.
"Newspapers, of course, are closing at an emergency-level rate—over the past twenty years, the country has lost more than three thousand. Newsrooms are closing even faster, as downsized staffs take refuge at smaller, dumpier dumps. For the past six years, Hermes has been documenting the lives lived in these dying places across the country, from Juneau to St. Louis. The spaces she captures tend to be beautifully abject. The photos are elegiac, sweet, and sometimes hilarious: a computer face-planted in an empty bullpen, a banner declaring “NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING WORKS” in a packed-up office, an editor presiding over a Last Supper-esque meeting. That editor looks as all news editors should: put upon and permanently disappointed. Looking at the image, I feel as though I’ve just handed him an article that’s too late, too florid, and ten inches too long."
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-offices-only-a-newsperson-could-love
