While virus spreads, news doesn't

Hammered by the COVID-19 crisis, The Gabber, a weekly newspaper serving Gulfport for more than 50 years, has shut down.

By Business Observer Staff
| 10:28 a.m. April 9, 2020
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The Gabber, a weekly paper serving Gulfport since 1968, has shuttered because of the COVID-19 economic crisis. Courtesy photo.

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Restaurants, hotels and other hospitality enterprises aren’t the only businesses laying off staff and shutting down because of the COVID-19 crisis. Newspapers, facing precipitous drops in advertising, are also suffering.

The Tampa Bay Times and Creative Loafing in Tampa have laid off staff and, in the case of the Times, severely cut back on printing, delivering the paper to subscribers on just Wednesdays and Sundays. Gannett-owned daily newspapers in Lakeland, Sarasota, Fort Myers and Naples have also announced cutbacks and furloughs.