"Growth has been equally impressive at The Post — from perhaps 100,000 to 200,000 in early 2016, according to an estimate by the newspaper industry analyst Ken Doctor, to 1 million at the end of 2017, to 3 million in November 2020, Axios reported..."

"Or consider cable news, which has experienced an enormous upsurge in audience throughout the Trump years. Figures... show that the combined prime-time audience of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News rose from about 3.1 million in 2015 to nearly 7.2 million in 2020."

For Five Years, Trump Outrage Has Fueled Media Profits. So Now What?

The Trump era may have been good for the business of journalism, at least on the national level. But it may not have been so good for the practice of journalism.