3,800 jobs lost in 2014

We've seen the recent threads of the new grads and their job hunting comments. Maybe this will add some perspective:

Newspaper industry lost 3,800 full-time editorial professionals in 2014 | Poynter.

 

Add me to the list of 2015. I left on my own though and have no desire in going back full time working for the man. But I'll hawk freelance gigs while working on my own in another venture.

 

I'm surprised there were that many jobs left to lose in 2014.

 

To put this in some perspective: The newspaper I worked at for many years had peak newsroom staffing of about 365 in 2003. So the equivalent of more than 10 early 2000s major-metro newsrooms vanished in a year. And who knows how many years of experience and institutional knowledge went away.

 

The sad part is that when I saw that number, it actually seemed low to me.

 

It seems like Gannett hasn't been doing as much slashing and burning as of lately*. In the late aughts, they were chopping thousands a year.



* I hope I didn't jinx anything.

 

Breezed through the story, and maybe I missed it, but is the story just talking about dailies, or all newspapers? If all, then count me among the lost because the weekly where I worked for 19 of its 20 years of existence closed shop last fall.

 

The really incredible information is looking at the graph from 2006 to 2014. Basically 20,000 jobs gone in 9 years.

 

Copee editers is rredundantt.

 

Write for one for a general sports/opinion website for free and it will pay off.

 

How?

 

It's a crossthread joke.