The Unity Journalists, an alliance of journalists who work to keep newsrooms and the news representative of the national diversity, began tracking news industry layoffs in January 2008.
No light reading
Its 2009 report is grim.
During one month — December 2008 — nearly 7400 jobs were lost in the journalism field.
Final edition
210 media outlets have completely disappeared since January ’08.
Since the Layoff Tracker began, 46,599 people in the news industry have been bought out or were terminated.
Read the article, which links to a .pdf of the report, on the Unity web site.
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