The mass layoffs at the New York Daily news has media analysts warning of the end of reporting, but online publishing and broadcasting jobs have surged in the last few years helping to offset the decline in print.
According to the Department of Labor, there are more online news people than in newspapers by over 30,000 jobs.
The surge in online news outlets, added to the explosion of internet reporters and video producers at traditional print operations, has helped to offset the decline in newspaper and magazine jobs, though not in full.
From 2001 to late 2016, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said that online publishing, video production and web search jobs have jumped from 66,643 to 206,396. What’s more, those jobs pay significantly better than newspapers.
Employment at newspapers during the same period dropped 58 percent, from 411,800 to 238,091. Magazines saw a decline from 166,306 to 70,632.
“The result of all this isn’t just that thousands of reporters are out of a job; it’s that the public is worse off,” said a report in the Columbia Journalism Review.
