54,200

[Songbird]

The number of newspaper, magazine jobs lost since 2003.

That figure, buried in a new Harvard University study about the troubles non-traditional reporters have getting congressional, White House and other official press passes to cover news events, is the highest calculation of job losses in American journalism yet.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/pew-54200-newspaper-magazine-jobs-axed-since-2003/article/2549876

The study: http://journalistsresource.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/BerkmanShorenstein_WhoGetsPressPass.pdf

 

[Mauve_Avenger]

I found the last paragraph of the article interesting. Apparently television and radio are being hit by the digital age as well. It's too bad.

 

[Armchair_QB]

As bad as that is, I would have expected it to be a bigger number.