The major publications, e.g. AP, NYTs, WaPo, Economist, FT, Bloomberg all have reporting and seem to be doing well. It's not like beat reporting is going to die. The death of journalism is way premature.
And the world suffers as a result, IMO. It’s all very thinly veiled opinion rather than original reporting. How many YouTubers are reporting out in the field rather than just reacting to stories other people reported?
More than anything else Substack shows to me how valuable editors are in the journalistic world. So, so many people are in desperate need of an editor to challenge them before they hit publish.
A lot of punditry has moved to those platforms, but roughly nobody on those platforms is actually doing investigative journalism.
You forgot podcasts which are available on numerous platforms. One of which is YT for video podcasts.
Most of the sports news now are breaking on podcasts. Same with pop culture. News sites now mostly refer to some podcast and the person on the podcast whatever bit of news they have come from there.
As of September: Roughly 478,000 podcasts have released at least one new episode in the last 90 days
Podcasts have become the way a majority of people I know are now getting their news, which is pretty crazy.
podcasts and web stuff is where the majority of people go to seek journalism, but I hesitate to say that's what replaced it. I see a void where it once was, and the product offered largely different than what I came to expect from journalism wholly.