One of the nation's top newspaper publishers is going bankrupt. What does it mean to you?

That's one of the questions here on this week's Reliable Sources Podcast.

So come on in. Welcome, I'm Brian Stelter.

I'm your host for this weekly podcast.

In between our Sunday television broadcasts on CNN,

this podcast is our chance to go in depth

with media leaders and newsmakers talking about how the news is made and

sometimes how the news is unraveling and that's what we're seeing right now.

McClatchy is the nation's second largest publisher of local newspapers and on

Thursday February 13th it filed for bankruptcy. This was years in the making it kind of

seemed inevitable at one point but it was still a signal moment for the struggles, the continuing struggles of local publishers.

So let's talk about it and more with Emily Bell.

She's a professor of the Columbia Journalism School

and the founding director of the Tao Center

for Digital Journalism at Columbia.

She also writes for the Columbia Journalism Review

and for the Guardian.

Emily, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me, Brian.

McClatchi's bankruptcy just feels like more of the same and maybe that is what's surprising is that

this is becoming just the new normal.

Yeah, I'm afraid so and we've had. this is becoming just the new normal?

Yeah, I'm afraid so and we've had a couple of really terrible years in particularly

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