ASNE Stops Trying to Count Total Job Losses in American Newsrooms

After a decade of documenting job losses for journalists totaling more than 20,000 since 2006, the American Society of News Editors has abandoned the effort.

The annual ASNE census (renamed the ASNE Diversity Survey) was released on the eve of the group's yearly convention.  For the first time in its nearly 40-year history, the survey included no estimate of the total of full-time professional jobs in the newsrooms of newspaper organizations.

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