Putting Numbers to Life After Newspapers
The American Journalism Review takes a look at Paper Cuts‘ Erica Smith who estimates that more than 7,000 journalists have lost their job this year.
And that means the newsroom population of American papers shrank by about 15 percent last year, down from 52,000 at the start of the year. That’s three times larger than the single greatest annual newsroom employment decrease since 1978, when the American Society of Newspaper Editors began making estimates of the editorial workforce.
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