At least 36 percent of the biggest newspapers in the U.S. and as at least 23 percent of the highest-traffic digital-native news outlets underwent layoffs between January 2017 and April 2018, according to a study from the Pew Research Center.
Bigger papers with circulations of at least 250,000 were more likely than smaller-circulation newspapers to have undergone layoffs in the time period, Pew said. Nine of the 16 newspapers with circulations of 250,000 or more underwent layoffs.
To get the numbers, the center used news articles that mentioned staff layoffs at 110 newspapers and 35 digital-native news outlets.
Layoffs were also tallied for digital-native news outlets with a monthly average of at least 10 million unique visitors during the same period, as identified in the center’s annual research on the state of the news media for the digital news sector. The news articles used did not always list the types of positions eliminated, so the layoffs analyzed were not necessarily of newsroom employees.
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