Posted on 12/08/2020 12:52:27 PM PST by Olog-hai
The coronavirus pandemic helped decimate already declining U.S. media jobs in digital, print, and broadcast newsrooms, according to new data.
According to the figures provided by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc. and posted by Axios, 16,000 newsroom jobs were lost in 2020 — higher than the last peak in 2008, when 15,000 newsroom jobs disappeared.
The data showed 14,000 “other media jobs” were lost this year as well, a category that includes jobs in television/film/streaming production, advertising, and book publishing. Those categories got whacked in 2008 as well, shedding nearly 15,000 jobs.
The bleeding has been relentless over the past 12 years, decreasing but never stopping from 2010 to 2015, the data showed. …
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Fiction writers, like lawyers, are a dime a dozen.
Maybe they can learn to code.
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They migrated to content marketing and are responsible for a majority of the articles found in any random search.
As a bonus, they were already well-trained in use of politically-correct propaganda.
30,000 to over 40,000 fewer liars.
You know the democrats had to steal the election as they were running out of liars.
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