This trend seems to be continuing USA Today’s parent company, Gannet, laid off more than 200 staffers in August. It’s the grim reality of the business.”įrom 2006 to 2012, the number of working journalists in the United States decreased by 17,000, according to the Pew Research Center. Its just the cold climate journalism has become. The layoff came two days after,” Bowles said in an interview with the HPR. “My father who was a long time reporter and the reason I became a reporter died, so I flew to Atlanta and I initiated his memorial. Scott Bowles had been working for USA Today for 17 years when he found out that he was being laid off. Often some of the most experienced reporters are the first to be laid off because they have the highest salaries. As a result, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today have all experienced major losses, with each of the papers cutting anywhere from 20 to 100 newsroom jobs within the past five months. In 2013, total revenue within the newspaper industry decreased by 2.6 percent, representing over a billion dollars in lost funds. “Thinking about the way people use the digital space thinking about the way content functions in the digital space has been a challenge for the news industry because that’s not what they’re grounded in,” said Amy Mitchell, director of journalism research for the Pew Research Center in an interview with the HPR.īecause they receive the majority of their profits from ads and subscriptions, some of the most distinguished newspapers have found themselves strapped for cash. By experimenting with different methods of keeping readers interested, the news industry is working tirelessly to keep journalism alive.
In this new age of technology, newspapers aren’t sure of how best to respond to many of the challenges they face today. Murrow, and Walter Cronkite is long gone. It seems as if the golden age of Woodward and Bernstein, Edward R. With the meteoric rise of social media sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, many people have claimed that we are entering a new age in which news must be delivered in 140 characters or fewer. They’re attempting to combat diminishing reader interest by shortening stories, adding commentary, and most notably, using social media to their advantage. In response, major newspapers have made considerable changes. Print readership is steadily declining, newspapers are closing, and journalists with decades of experience are being laid off. The news industry has had a rough decade.
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