12,840 newspaper layoffs & buyouts -- and still counting

2009 total: 12,840+ jobs
Layoffs and buyouts at U.S. newspapers in 2009

The pins that locate the layoffs on the map are so dense that you cannot see the names of any state between Maine and a line that runs through North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and New Mexico. And, from Maine to the south, only the name of Louisiana is visible.

There are posts for the Dayton Daily News, Hamilton Journal-News, Middletown Journal and Springfield News-Sun in only the past two days.

So sad.

Click on the headline to check on newspapers that have been in your life or in the lives of your friends and former co-workers.