Journalist 'Survivors' Will Earn More

In the future, there will be fewer journalists. This is probably a guarantee (though of course it depends on your definition of journalist, because maybe if you have thousands of hyperlocal web sites staffed by one or two concerned citizens, they’re sort of like journalists though not as we know them today). But economist Lisa George says that the “survivors”—the practicing journalists who are still practicing journalism in the future will earn more money.

“Some of the best reporters and the most insightful commentary will come from fewer and fewer sources,” she told

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