The Media Business: Is the journalism employment ‘crisis’ overblown?
March 20th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Job losses, Journalism
“Most journalists in newspapers do everything BUT covering significant news. They spend their time doing celebrity, food, automobile, and entertainment stories. Look around any newsroom, or just the lists of assignments or beats, and you soon come to realize that 20 per cent or fewer of the journalists in newsrooms actually produce the kind of news that most people are concerned about losing,” writes Robert G. Picard.
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