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.


