Newsroom freefall: 56,900 to 20,000

Newspaper newsrooms have gone from 56,900 in 1990 to about 20,000 in 2019.

That’s a staggering loss for democracy because newspapers have been an important watchdog for political and business skullduggery.
 
Conversely, internet publishing and online broadcasting rose from 30,000 to 198,000 while newspaper newsrooms were being decimated. But that doesn’t help democracy.

Gatehouse Media, which includes the BJ among its hundreds of properties, says it used the Knight Foundation’s Table Stakes as its guide.

With 44 E. Exchange Street looking like a ghost newsroom, John S. Knight must be spinning in his grave at that claim.

The article spins it as Gatehouse making lemonade out of lemons. But it has the look of grapes . . . which has rotted and soured years ago.

For the full article, go to http://newsonomics.com/newsonomics-gatehouse-makes-lemonade-out-of-big-layoffs-and-new-investigative-teams/?fbclid=IwAR1SRX_U8Sk0pD4vqaXVfMJMkVyWtIqqcM_q0oAbGBFqz015BIk7HCDAIro