Posted on 07/11/2010 4:56:38 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Earlier this week, we gave you a few staggering factoids on the state of the U.S. newspaper industry.
You know, cheery stuff like how there have been roughly 35,000 newspaper job losses or buyouts since March 2007.
Or how 166 newspapers have either shut down or stopped putting out a print edition since 2008.
Or the fact that the U.S. print sector lost more than 24,500 jobs between September 2008 and September 2009.
Good times.
It's all from a new report by the World Association of Newspapers and Newspaper Publishers.
The stats seem even more bananas when viewed in the form of colorful charts and maps.
So we put together a little presentation to take you through it all.
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Between September 2008 and September 2009, the U.S. print sector lost more than 24,500 jobs, while the broadcast sector eliminated more than 8,300 positions. Journalism job losses peaked at 7,398 in December 2008. Between September 2008 and September 2009, the U.S. print sector lost more than 24,500 jobs, while the broadcast sector eliminated more than 8,300 positions. Journalism job losses peaked at 7,398 in December 2008.
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This chart shows a steady decline in newspaper jobs over the past 20 years. (One bright spot: Online news jobs are growing rapidly)
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The layoffs for all journalists were really brutal from December 2008-March 2009.
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The newspaper newsroom workforce since 1978.
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Newspapers jobs appear to be in much worse shape than other areas of the media industry.
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(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
That’s nice. Pass the beer nuts.
Online news jobs are growing rapidlyPlus, people aren't any less gullible.
Dr. Raoul’s Law: BIAS = LAYOFFS
The only reason I get a newspaper is for the TV guide that I don’t watch anyway. I have to give myself a wake up slap. There’s nothing in the paper anyway.
Unlike everyone here, I have use for liberal “newspapers”...I need them to line the bottom of the trash bags and absorb the liquid crap.
I read somewhere recently that almost no one under 35 years old subscribes to a newspaper anymore.
That’s okay, no one over 60 subscribes either... Seems to balance out though...
Maybe they should start printing newspapers on paper towels or toilet paper.
At least they would have some use then.
I’m sure the Dems won’t let totally independent and truth printing papers like the NY Times and other bastions of journalism die an untimely death. How would our Republic survive without them?
I want everybody associated with the Democrat “mainstream” newspaper business to lose their jobs, their homes, and their families. For the damage they have done to a once great nation they deserve nothing less.
Ideology aside, print newspapers are a dying breed.
Printing newspapers nobody reads must leave a rather large carbon footprint.
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