5 charts That Describe the State of Digital Publishing

By: Ricardo Bilton | Digiday

Digital publishers grew significantly in 2013, adding new writers, raising capital and expanding into new countries. But what the digital natives like BuzzFeed and Mashable haven’t quite worked out yet is how to convert all that growth into sustainable long-term businesses: Digital publishers may have added roughly 5,000 full-time editorial jobs last year, but those additions hardly make up for the 45,000 total jobs lost by the newspaper and magazine industries.

“There’s no Eureka moment yet for the industry. No one out there thinks we’ve turned a corner,” said Mark Jurkowitz, associate director at Pew Research Center.