Newspaper industry to lose a quarter of its jobs in ten years

Posted: Monday, 21 December 2009 - 12:21pm Bookmark and Share

The Employment Projections Summary is produced by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics and projects the total job loss or gain for each industry between 2008 and 2018. Among the ten industries likely to lose the most staff, newspapers come in at seventh place.
Industries that ranked higher for predicted job losses included department stores, electronic component manufacturing, motor vehicle parts, postal services, printing and apparel manufacturing.

The report showed that at the end of 2008, there were around 326,000 jobs in the newspaper industry. It predicted that in ten years, that number will have fallen to 245,000.

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