Bad news.
The number of newspaper newsroom employees fell from about 71,000 in 2008 to 39,000 in 2017, a decline of 45%. https://t.co/Iptn2zMTGV pic.twitter.com/F9WW5L4C5p
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) January 7, 2019
Dallas Morning News Cuts 43 Jobs, Including 20 In Newsroom, In 'Digital-First' Pivot https://t.co/oLcVic7oWh pic.twitter.com/qSNu4ECTHO
— Aakshi Gupta (@aakshi97) January 13, 2019
Since 2000, newspapers shed 241,000 jobs. The entire coal industry employs only 50,000 miners. https://t.co/IbOp43aSrw pic.twitter.com/gMMBJtwDPY
— Bradford Pearson (@BradfordPearson) July 24, 2018
NEW DATA: Estimated total US daily newspaper circulation in 2017 was 31M for weekday, 34M for Sunday. Both down 11% and 10%, respectively, from 2016: https://t.co/Zn9BFHHQUu pic.twitter.com/f7RTUqqnE5
— Pew Research Journalism (@pewjournalism) June 13, 2018
The city that never sleeps finds that it’s running out of reporters to report
Sad! 