Saturday, May 23, 2009

Newspaper industry struggling to survive in this depression

From News Cycle...

Here is a running tab of number of people who have lost their jobs in 2009 through job cuts at newspapers and wire services.

The vast majority reflects layoffs, but some are from buyouts offered by news organizations or jobs lost because of a newspaper ceasing operations.

In April, 1,381 people were laid off from newspapers in the United States. At least 3,943 people lost their jobs in newspapers in March.

Here is a list of the newspapers that cut 1,492 people in February. Here are the newspapers that reported 2,114 layoffs in January.

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