U.S. Newspapers Have Shed Half of Their Newsroom Employees Since 2008

Newsroom employment at U.S. newspapers continues to plummet, falling by around half since 2008, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics data. But a modest increase in jobs after 2014 in other news-producing sectors–especially digital-native organizations–offset some of the losses at newspapers, helping to stabilize the overall number of U.S. newsroom employees in the last five years.

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