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Creative Destruction: Newspaper Employment in the US Has Collapsed by 61% (and by 279,000 jobs) since 1990 and is 24% Below the 1947 Level. pic.twitter.com/pZ3DBxTBe0
— Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) December 15, 2016
U.S. newspapers have lost 279,000 jobs since 1990, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Newspaper employment dropped by 61 percent since 1990 and is currently 24 percent below its 1947 level. Peak newspaper employment was in the early 1990s, when the industry employed more than 450,000. – READ MORE