According to Northwestern University, since 2005, approximately 2,886 U.S. newspapers—about a third of the country’s newspapers—have gone out of business. That’s about 150 per year, or three per week.

These newspapers went out of business for several reasons, including ineffective management, shifting demographics, and advertisers moving their advertising budgets to digital ads. Obviously, there were particular reasons for one newspaper’s demise that were not factors in the demise of another.