Newsroom Employment Level Lowest Since Early 1980s

Editor & Publisher:

NEW YORK Newsroom employment has plunged 11.3% in 2008, with the industry losing some 5,900 jobs, according to the American Society of News Editors (ASNE). It's the biggest drop the organization has recorded since it first started conducing its newsroom employment survey in 1978.

The number of jobs losses more than doubled in 2008 compared with 2007 when the industry shed 2,400 jobs.

The number of newsroom jobs is now at a level last seen during the early 1980s.

However, other findings from the survey include a 21% rise year-over-year in online-only journalists to 2,300, of which 19.6% were minorities.

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Comments

[1sparrow]

just another way of saying "nothing here folks move along". now lets try to comprehend the buried stories; it seems the arm of law enforcement is expanding by leaps and bounds. the military are being charged to a new career. US. it was told long ago by a reporter no longer in existence RANDI RHOADES. about the time DENNIS KUCINICH was starting his crusade against the H.M.O.'s.. .. both have gone away-- does any one ask WHY?

[StevieRae]

Glen Greenwald has another explanation which adds to the "why' newsrooms are emptying, double speak. "The media constantly talked about Bush's illegal spying on Americans BUT what he did was never a "crime" or even "illegal" "

He opines: "A principal reason why the government has been able to engage with impunity in the extremism and lawlessness of the last decade is because most journalists refuse even to describe it as what it is."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/04/17/prosecutions/index.html

[ReelBusy]

Killing off papers and journalism in general has been the corporate goal since the Watergate Scandal.
Mission Accomplished.

[avraamjack]

Great Journalism can survive:

One small monthly fee that gives access to all the quality online journalistic content is the only model that will work.

The target market would generate many millions of subscriptions because it is the entire English Speaking World.

Each fee would be broken up to each journalistic organization based upon which sites the subscriber visited. It is better to get a small part of $6.99 a month times 100 million than it is to get all of nothing.
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[keerod76]

I may be a blogger who loves HuffPost and who reads the Daily Beast and a whole lot of sports blogs but I don't want to live in a world where there the New York Times and the Washington Post does not exist.

http://balmer.typepad.com/watercooler/
#1 Comedy Blog

[sleeperd]

Bye Bye!!

[Budokan]

Well, seeing as how newspapers rarely print news anymore, why would you need hundreds of stenographers anyway?

http://kennethmarkhoover.com

[kappa08]

oh well....should have thought about that when "the news" stop being journalism and started being fearful cheerleaders for Bush.
Honestly that world needed an overdue wash....

[scottarino]

starting with yourself.

[tililek]

and if all those bloggers who express opinions based on the news they read that is written by journalists reporting the news would pay royalties they might find they'll have a continuing source of something to opine about.

Tis they who are killing the goose that provides them with eggs.

[huffyjive]

"The loss of journalists is a loss for democracy," Charlotte Hall, president of ANSE and editor of the Orlando Sentinel, said in a statement.
we haven't had any true journalists in years, what we have today are propagandists and agendists.

[rich misty]

I agree. I don't desern any loss... At worst, it's a break even... It could be a win-win for democracy.

[kappa08]

completely agree....

[scottarino]

Simply opinion. Not fact

[AnotherHuddy]

Every time The Jesus and Mary Chain goes on tour, newspapers hemorrhage money. Quck! To the Delorean!

[VOTER]

If the newspapers had allowed their reporters to go after the BushCo crimes
for the past 8 years, we would still be reading their newspapers.

Shame on the Executives and without a doubt shame on our MSM
for being so damned lazy and uncaring during these past 8 years.

Thank god for the internet.

Warning to worthless cable and television pundits:
We no longer need you, too.

[sleeperd]

Like much of the MSM, newsrooms are infested with effete, liberal graduates of northeastern schools of journalism who are really not all that bright. They are regurgitators of liberal gibberish incapable of any critical thinking,

Thanks to FoxNews, Rush, Sean and hundreds of conservative radio hosts, they have been outed and America is sick of them.

[scottarino]

go back to sleep.

[LOVETHELIBERALS]

WOW!!! Unbelievable how much CNN is in the tank for Obama.
This is not journalism; this is a network with an agenda.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2tg8gxCDU

[VOTER]

No problem with this video.

The CNN reporter simply asked folks why they were there. She didn't show
any support for Obama.
BTW - I love the dad who stayed with the crowd even though
his infant son was crying. He must have studied the Palin Parenting book.

However my favorite clip of the Teabaggers is from Daily Kos.

http://www.dailykostv.com/w/001168

Catching Cavuto LYING is FOX.

[AnotherHuddy]

What happened in the early 80s?

[jackson1015]

Sad but true.

[Dawkins]

Because everybody is here.

[scottarino]

everybody's here...wanting opinion, not news, not facts.