Newsroom employment lowest in three decades

David Johnson April 15th, 2008

When we talk about newspaper sites doing video, comments always come in that newspapers have way more resources than broadcasters. There’s a wide gulf, sure, but that gap is getting smaller. According to Editor and Publisher: U.S. daily newspapers shrank their newsrooms by 2,400 journalists in the past year. a 4.4% workforce decrease that’s the biggest year-over-year cut in ranks since the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) began conducting its census 30 years ago. ASNE said 52,600 people work full-time in daily newspaper newsrooms — a number that has not been that low since 1984.