A new report confirms what everyone working in media could probably guess already: Journalism job losses are accelerating at a faster rate than job losses in the overall U.S. economy.
Since the financial crisis started (September 15, 2008 to September 15, 2009), 35,885 jobs in the journalism industry have been cut in the U.S.
The data comes from UNITY: Journalists of Color, which tracks SEC filings and self-reported data from 1,101 print and broadcast media outlets. UNITY counts jobs lost through layoffs, buyouts and attrition.
We already know many of the jobs lost were photographers, based on reports of photo staffs being slashed at newspapers like the Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun and the Los Angeles Times. According to the UNITY report, the Los Angeles Times leads U.S. newspapers in the total number of jobs cut since January 1, 2008: 1,200!
There is some glimmer of good news, though. After a painful December—in which 7,398 journalism jobs were lost—the bleeding has slowed, as you can see on the chart above.
For more, here's a UNITY press release, or you can read the full report in PDF format. Editor & Publisher has more coverage.
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