SF Journos Attest to Layoffs, Downsizing Over Past Decade

The job churn among professional journalists in the San Francisco Bay Area has been dramatically documented by a new San Francisco Peninsula Press Club survey. According to the San Francisco Business Times, the survey found that 44.7 percent of the 700-plus journalists surveyed had been “laid off, accepted a buyout or voluntarily left their job during a period of downsizing during the past 10 years.”

Despite that figure, most of the journalists surveyed—more than 70 percent—say they’ve stayed in the field.

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