Good News Journos -Your Industry Is Only Nearly Extinct!
According to Yahoo!, at least, y’all out there in DC Journo Land might want to consider switching careers. Specifically -get into PR. Yahoo! reporter Andrea Duchon has talked to some people on the Internet(one of whom is named Gidwani) and they decided that journalism -among other careers – is kaputz. Specifically, they expect the industry to shed 8% of jobs (3,900) by 2020. This is mostly because of, well, bloggers like us (awkward) and Twitter:
Gidwani says that a number of factors have contributed to the decline of the modern day journalist, from dwindling newspaper readership to the consolidation of news organizations.
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