“Remember the Pew study that found that more than 5,000 new, fairly decently paying journalism jobs had been created by digital news startups?
I often contrasted that increase with the great losses suffered by the local and regional newspaper industry. Those losses now stand at more than 25,000 across the country, with more jobs lost (though unreported by parent companies due to publisher edict and editorial fear) every week.”
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