About six months ago, after visiting several newspapers on the west coast of Florida, a faculty member in our journalism department at Florida International University (FIU) emailed these comments: “I felt sad about the newspapers . . . it’s as if time had passed them by . . . the staff looked like me—white folks who were mostly middle-aged.”That really shouldn’t have come as such a surprise to our faculty member. According to a recent report for the Knight Foundation on employment at 1,410 pape ...
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