The American Society of News Editors released its annual
newsroom census figures today showing a severe decline in the size of newspaper
staffs. According to Emily Guskin at the Pew Research Center .
In all, there were about 2,600 fewer full-time professional
editorial jobs at newspapers in 2012, a 6.4% decline from 2011. That leaves the
industry at 38,000 full-time professional editorial employees and is the first
time that figure has been below 40,000 since the census began in 1978.
The losses are also more than twice the level estimated in
March by Rick Edmonds, coauthor of the chapter on newspapers in the Pew Research
Center Edmonds
discussed the losses in a piece published earlier today on the Poynter
Institute’s website.
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