The past decade has been a disaster for America’s newsrooms, as companies have been forced to slash 33,000 jobs in a still-unsolved struggle with declining revenue and advertising.
A review of federal jobs statistics by the Pew Research Center said that from 2008-2018, newspaper staffs were cut 47%.
“The greatest decline in newsroom employment has occurred at newspapers,” said Pew in a new FactTank posting.
Overall newsroom cuts, including digital and TV, reached 25% in the decade.
And while the economy has rebounded in recent years, newspapers took another hit in 2018. In fact, some newspapers suffered more than one round of layoffs.
“Layoffs have pummeled U.S. newspapers in recent years. Roughly a quarter of U.S. newspapers with an average Sunday circulation of 50,000 or more (27%) experienced layoffs in 2018,” said the analysis. It added, “the layoffs came on top of the roughly one-third (32%) of papers in the same circulation range that experienced layoffs in 2017.”
The gloomy newspaper numbers are the latest, showing the historic shift by news consumers away from paper and instead to digital and video.
Those platforms saw somewhat steady employment over the decade. One exception, of course, has been the explosion of digital. Employment in digital news has doubled, said Pew.
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