Get Ready For 'Replacement Journalism'
Journalism hiring is picking up. Anyone can see that. But the hiring that’s going on isn’t for jobs that are the same as the ones lost.
Ken Doctor examines this phenomenon in his weekly column for Nieman Lab. It is, as always, a very good read.
The main question: “Are we beginning to see significant, tangible news coverage in this new, mainly digital world?”
Doctor examines a number of metrics with some very good estimates. For example, are the hirings at ProPublica and elsewhere making up for the investigative jobs cut at newspapers? Doctor calculates that the investigative print world lost “in the high hundreds” of jobs while investigative hiring has been “in the low hundreds.”
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