The News is Drying Up, Journalism Perishing, But We Can Still Cope (Daily Links Always Adapting)
Drying up, not getting wetter 
TO repeat something we've said countless times before, every single week - not just every month - we can see a measurable decrease in the amount of news published 'out there' on the Web. This is measurable in the sense that given a set of 1,000+ RSS feeds one can tally up (or down) the declines and plot a curve. The number of new (as in newly-launched) Web sites that do journalism is a lot smaller than those shutting down/winding down.
This past weekend and the weekend before that I had to redo and rework my RSS reading tools, as did others who are affiliated and actively involved. The changes are in Git, but they're not profound. Every single week it becomes a greater challenge to locate and curate news of relevance to tech, albeit this problem isn't limited to any one domain. It is not a tech issue; it is a news desert issue.
This week I spoke to an investigative journalist over the telephone (yes, they still exist even if a 'dying breed'), working as a freelancer for a very large publication. The article, however, won't be in English and thus not accessible to us. One positive aspect of that interaction is that it motivated us to make some further improvement to the site's archives, dealing better with arcane (to us) characters. Our old wiki and WordPress archives aren't in a final form yet - it is an ongoing process. Editing/improving ~40,000 pages 'in bulk' is a big task.
One advantage we have is, we're generally technical people, so we can fix our own problems rather than hire "expensive" people like other sites do. This means running this site isn't too hard and, unlike many other sites, we won't be shutting down any time soon; subsequently we become more visible on the Web, sometimes the latest remaining copy on some stories/topics.
Mozilla is in rather poor shape, so it seems like only "a matter of time" before Chrome 'owns' the Web and the Web becomes almost synonymous or interchangeable with Chromium clones/derivatives (including Chrome). We become more pessimistic each time we study the trends because they show more and more restrictions being added, even to GNU/Linux. We're seeing Web DRM and other forms of DRM being sold as "security" (hence, no criticism is permitted).
The Web probably peaked around 15-20 years ago. It ain't coming back. █