The New York Times once owned dozensofnewspapers as well as television and radio stations and sports clubs, but in recent years has shed most of its assets.
The media landscape today is much more similar to the middle of the 19th century when dozensof daily newspapers and hundreds of weeklies were published in New York.
Linda Bernstein has written hundreds of articles for dozensof magazines and newspapers, writes the blog GenerationBsquared and teaches social media at the Columbia University School of Journalism.
One industry that exploded was Poland's once state-run media industry, which now includes eight daily national newspapers plus dozensof television channels and radio stations.