More News , Fewer News Jobs

By SteveK 

MediaJobsDaily writes about the results of a Radio-Television News Directors Association (RTNDA)/Hofstra University study about local television news. One stat: jobs dropped by 4.3% and salaries by 4.4% in 2008, while networks set records for the amount of news on the air:



Related: TV Week’s Josef Adalian on cable news: “Viewers are turning to the Internet for news because it’s become almost impossible to find actual news on TV.”

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