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News Media Outlets Have Been Ravaged by the Pandemic
NYT ^ | 17 April 20 | Marc Tracy

Posted on 04/18/2020 6:26:27 PM PDT by Bruiser 10

The news media business was shaky before the coronavirus started spreading across the country last month. Since then, the economic downturn that put more than 22 million Americans out of work has led to pay cuts, layoffs and shutdowns at many news outlets, including weeklies like Seven Days in Burlington, Vt., and Gannett, the nation's largest newspaper chain.

Finding a sizable audience has not been a problem for publishers. Hunger for news in a time of crisis has sent droves of readers to many publications. But with businesses paused or closed — and no longer willing or able to pay for advertisements — a crucial part of the industry’s support system has cracked.

Hard data on job losses is not yet available, but Jed Kolko, the chief economist at Indeed.com, said new listings for jobs in the media and communications sector had fallen 35 percent in the 60 days before April 3, compared with the same period last year. The decline in postings for all jobs was less drastic, at 24 percent, suggesting that the pandemic has had a greater effect on the news media industry than on other businesses, Mr. Kolko added.

The New York Times is continuing to gauge the pandemic’s effects on newspapers, magazines and digital media companies through interviews with executives, newsroom employees and union leaders across the country. All told, an estimated 33,000 employees of news media companies in the United States have been laid off, furloughed or had their pay reduced since the arrival of the coronavirus.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; media; msm
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To: IncPen

Add with the media outlets Hollywood studios and network TV staff getting layed off.


21 posted on 04/18/2020 6:53:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: Bruiser 10

We have to. All victories are not theirs. In many ways they have cut off their nose to spite their face.

That said I want an end to “I declared an emergency now I get unlimited dictatorship” theory.

We have the ballot box. But that’s a long wait for our civil rights back.


22 posted on 04/18/2020 6:54:45 PM PDT by Persevero (I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen)
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To: Bruiser 10

They could learn to code. I understand you can work from home.


23 posted on 04/18/2020 6:55:04 PM PDT by gogeo (It isn't just time to open America up again: It's time to be America again.)
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To: Bruiser 10
Hunger for news in a time of crisis has sent droves of readers to many publications.

Anyone who goes to the N YTimes for news won’t find it there, at least not about anything that is remotely political. A novel corona virus that is killing many should not be political, but rags like the NYT have made it so.

24 posted on 04/18/2020 7:00:26 PM PDT by Freee-dame
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25 posted on 04/18/2020 7:22:50 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: tinyowl

Brian Stelter “I crawled in bed and cried....”
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29 mentions in the Holy Bible of creeping and crawling things such as
Genesis 6:7
And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.

Leviticus 11:43

Ye shall not make yourselves abominable through any crawling thing which crawleth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Leviticus: 11:44
neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

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Thought of poor baby Stelter and these passages. A creepy crawling thing for sure.


26 posted on 04/18/2020 7:24:19 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: Bruiser 10

Nothing in this universe has only one side.

L


27 posted on 04/18/2020 7:24:39 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Bruiser 10

As the elites like to tell “the little people”;: LEARN TO CODE


28 posted on 04/18/2020 7:25:54 PM PDT by GAGOP
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To: Bruiser 10

And just who gives a shiite?


29 posted on 04/18/2020 7:31:28 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: Bruiser 10

Wow! Look! A silver lining!


30 posted on 04/18/2020 7:38:31 PM PDT by CaptainPhilFan
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To: Dilbert San Diego
The virus is magnifying some trends that were happening before the virus hit.

That's an understatement. This is how the left is becoming a big "winner" in all of this being the ghouls that they are. Some things have benefited our side though.

31 posted on 04/18/2020 7:41:45 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: tinyowl

He cried so hard he woke up his wife and her boyfriend in the next room.


32 posted on 04/18/2020 7:42:49 PM PDT by Richard Kimball (WWG1WGA)
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To: Bruiser 10

Bye! :)


33 posted on 04/18/2020 7:48:53 PM PDT by Reagan80 ("In this current crisis, government is not the solution to our problems, government IS the problem")
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To: Bruiser 10

“Gee, that’s a shame.”


34 posted on 04/18/2020 8:11:35 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Bruiser 10

The needle on the ol’ give-a-crap-o-meter must be stuck. Not even quivering.


35 posted on 04/18/2020 8:44:59 PM PDT by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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To: Bruiser 10

When one looks long enough, often a silver lining can be found.


36 posted on 04/18/2020 9:33:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes.

Of course media would never provide this context, it puts things in clearer perspective.


37 posted on 04/18/2020 9:34:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: GAGOP

Can you ‘spin’ computer code? Spinning facts to suit the narrative is the most important skill set for today’s ‘journalists’.


38 posted on 04/18/2020 9:39:22 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Bruiser 10
Send those journalists out among the people of the USA.
You ain't seen "ravaged" yet.
39 posted on 04/18/2020 9:40:27 PM PDT by meadsjn
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To: Bruiser 10

So we take all the readers when there is no advertising and when the advertisers come back we will be the only place to advertise, love it


40 posted on 04/18/2020 10:19:23 PM PDT by dila813
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