by: Susan Johnston and Peter Beller | Ebyline

When the Federal Reserve released a report last month about the plummeting net worth of Americans over the last decade, the thought occurred to us that if anyone were worse off than the nation as a whole it might be journalists. After all, inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant in the U.S. for years and you’d be hard pressed to find an American industry that suffered as sharp a contraction in the last decade (or in any decade) as the news business, right? Wrong.