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Ghost newspaper

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, ghost newspaper means: A newspaper that still publishes but has lost much of its capacity for original local reporting.

In Turkish: içi boşaltılmış yerel gazete

How it is used

A critical industry label; assess original reporting capacity rather than judging only page count.

Example sentences

  1. The title still arrived every morning, but staff cuts had turned it into a ghost newspaper.

    Continued publication can conceal the loss of local reporting resources.

  2. Researchers counted locally produced stories to assess whether it was a ghost newspaper.

    The label concerns editorial capacity rather than the survival of the brand alone.

Common collocations

  • become a ghost newspaper
  • identify ghost newspapers
  • ghost newspaper phenomenon
  • newsroomThe office where journalists and editors of a newspaper, broadcaster or news website work together to gather, write and publish the news; also the team itself.
  • circulationThe number of copies of a newspaper or magazine that are sold or distributed, usually counted per day, week or month.

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