Newspapers Lost 1,300 Editorial Staffers in 2013
According to The American Society of News Editors’ annual census, newspapers are more diverse despite losing three percent of newsroom staff.
Overall, there were about 36,700 full-time journalists employed at roughly 1,400 papers in 2013. That’s represents a 1,300-person decline, from 38,000 in 2012. Of those journalists, about 4,900 (13 percent) are racial and ethnic minorities. That’s a 200-person increase from 2012.
“Producing the employment census each year is a significant effort on the part of ASNE, but as the leaders of America’s newsrooms, we feel it’s essential to keep this data front and center,” said ASNE President David Boardman, in a statement. “We
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