The Plain Dealer had 340 reporters just two decades ago. A headline for our age. pic.twitter.com/TIkeIZENKZ
— Tyler Buchanan (@Tylerjoelb) April 12, 2020
1/ I am struggling for the words. After laying off more than 20 journalists last week — in the middle of this pandemic — this is what The Plain Dealer is doing to the remaining Guild members. https://t.co/U7vNXgkKzR
— Connie Schultz (@ConnieSchultz) April 7, 2020
We cut everybody's salary @dallasnews today. I hate that we had to do it, but I'm grateful that our company found ways to share the burden and invest in the future. Damn, I love these journalists. They'll never stop fighting and I won't either.https://t.co/hN0N9nVdMh
— Just Another Mike Wilson (@mWilstory) April 6, 2020
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Especially right now, journalists are essential workers. But their jobs are threatened by the very crisis they are covering. Urgent help is needed, and some ideas are offered here. My column: https://t.co/odlFcuI23H
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 26, 2020
Two devastating bulletins today from the US news business:
— Bill Grueskin (@BGrueskin) March 30, 2020
— The Tampa Bay Times, a top-ranked metro paper, is going down to 2 days in print
— Gannett, owner of USA Today and > 200 other dailies, is furloughing most of its staff one week per month.https://t.co/2WUJGAm9Lm
Journalists have been designated as "essential workers" but the industry as a whole is teetering on the brink of wholesale collapse — in months, not years. https://t.co/2EdgNdAyZB
— T. Christian Miller (@txtianmiller) March 26, 2020
“Among the important steps you should take during this crisis: Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. And buy a subscription to your local newspaper.” https://t.co/NvItvdunIH
— Luke Broadwater☀️ (@lukebroadwater) March 27, 2020
“We wrote about the local bands, and businesses, and that’s who we depended on for revenue”
— Néné (@abene_writes) March 20, 2020
Dozens of local papers have stopped publication, or had mass layoffs because coronavirus regulations have shut down their advertisers. My latest for @GuardianUS https://t.co/XizakDVK2H
At the Cleveland Plain Dealer, new staff cuts may slice the number of reporters to a shockingly low 14. The newsroom staff (reporters, editors, etc) was more than 300 in the 1990s. My column https://t.co/SKQIG89pTe
— Margaret Sullivan (@Sulliview) March 15, 2020
Consider this my gift to the world:
— Joshua Benton (@jbenton) March 3, 2020
Here are the daily/Sunday circulations of the largest newspapers in the United States — information that is surprisingly difficult to find online!
These are all the papers with daily circulation of at least 75,000: pic.twitter.com/G0WbQiIYTP
The shrinking presence of local news may be dividing the country, Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown says, just days after the Herald's owner, McClatchy, filed for bankruptcy, throwing the future of her paper and 29 others across the US into question. https://t.co/fvZVRZjH63
— CNN Business (@CNNBusiness) February 18, 2020
.@Kdoctor says on @ReliableSources that financial investors are soon expected to own 40% of daily newspapers in the U.S. And, he adds, "There are only 20,000 journalists left at daily newspapers," a decrease of 60% in the last 25 years. This is a growing crisis for democracy.
— Alan C. Miller (@alanmillerNLP) February 16, 2020
The future of local newspapers just got bleaker. Here’s why we can’t let them die. – The Washington Post ..the great @Sulliview on similar themes https://t.co/PoRxg2J9Fc
— emily bell (@emilybell) February 15, 2020
Way late to this, but it may be even worse than @jbenton points out here. If you take the newsroom headcount at the @nytimes (approx. 1,700), @washingtonpost (approx. 850), and @WSJ (1,000? 1,200?), these three papers employ nearly 1 of every 5 newspaper journalists left in U.S. https://t.co/6cfjPCXwaK
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) February 10, 2020
The contributors to this piece are laid off local journalists. The photographs of them were taken by laid off photographers. Who better to tell the story about the decline in local news. https://t.co/UflwI9MmoY
— Marc Lacey (@marclacey) December 21, 2019
“My routine as a kid was pretty simple. I’d wake up, grab the Cleveland Plain Dealer…I loved the Plain Dealer, but sadly the Plain Dealer is being murdered.”@JRagazzo on the methodical murder of a paper we grew up reading and dreamed of one day joining https://t.co/5GhleeZr4k
— Wesley (@WesleyLowery) April 7, 2020
Sad! 