Last week’s extensive layoffs at the New York Daily News are the just the latest drop in a sea of newsroom cuts the last decade. Nearly a quarter of newsroom jobs in the U.S., including at digital-only publications, have been eliminated since 2008, dropping from about 114,000 positions in 2008 to 88,000 last year, according to a report from the Pew Research Center. The bulk of cuts have been at newspapers. The number of employees, like reporters, editors, photographers and videographers, at newspapers specifically is down 45 percent since 2008, when there were roughly 71,000 in those roles. Now, there are about 39,000. The reduction at newspapers, driven mainly by conglomerates looking to slash their way to profitability, is so deep as to be little improved by the hiring going on within digital newsrooms. Within newsrooms that operate online-only, hiring increased 79 percent to 13,000 in 2017, from 7,400 in 2008. While growth is growth, the total number of digital newsroom jobs now is roughly a third of the 32,000 traditional newsroom jobs eliminated since 2008. The year has been a good example of the rolling layoffs in media. In February, Hearst laid off about 130 employees as part of its January takeover of Rodale;
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