From 2008 to 2018, newsroom employment in the U.S. fell by 25 percent, according to a Pew Research
Center
In 2008,
around 114,000 newsroom employees (reporters, editors, photographers and
videographers) were employed in five news industries: newspaper, radio,
broadcast television, cable and “other information services” (the best match for digital-native news
publishers). By 2018, that number had dropped to about 86,000, down some 28,000
jobs, according to Pew.
Pew reports
that the drop in newsroom employment is attributable mostly to the newspaper
sector. The number of newspaper newsroom employees fell by 47 percent between
2008 and 2018, from about 71,000 workers to 38,000, according to Pew.
Of the five
industries examined, noteworthy job growth happened only in the digital-native
news sector. Since 2008, the number of digital-native newsroom employees has
risen by 82 percent, from about 7,400 workers to about 13,500 in 2018.
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