Journalists losing jobs at 3X the national average | CF
Clipped Fresh — By Christopher Spencer on September 21, 2009 at 11:13 AMUNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. – UNITY Honors Doug Mitchell.
FROM THE STORY: Since the Lehman Bros. collapse last September, the journalism industry lost jobs at almost three times the rate of jobs lost in the economy each month. UNITY’s 2009 Layoff Tracker Report shows an average 22% increase in journalism jobs lost each month from September 2008 through August 2009. In contrast, the economy shed jobs at an average pace of plus 8% each month during the same period. (Discovered via mediabistro.com)
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