The Journalism Shop Surveys Former LAT Staffers

Brett Levy at The Journalism Shop polled 75 former LAT staffers and has a grim assessment of how they’re doing now. It seems our dark vision of a bunch of seasoned reporters a decade from retirement age suddenly out of work and feeling obsolete in an industry forever changed is…well, not too far off.

Levy writes:

More than two-thirds are still receiving unemployment checks, though 68 percent expect those benefits to expire within 30 weeks of when the survey was taken in mid-November.

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