Friday, June 17, 2016

A first: More workers at online sites than newspapers

By  (@SECRETSBEDARD)  6/17/16 8:05 AM

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has been charting the demise of newspapers, and its latest numbers reveal what many in the industry have been witnessing. Newspaper employment, as of March, had dropped to 183,200, compared with 197,800 working in "Internet publishing and broadcasting."

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Said Nieman, "It's safe to assume that newspaper jobs will continue to evaporate. Most small and mid-sized metro papers are struggling to find new revenue as print advertising and circulation decline and online advertising fails to make up the difference."

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