From this week's White Noise column over at
YES! Weekly:
Our industry in crisis
Sorry for the delay, but I only just recently remembered to check the annual tally on the Papercuts blog, which keeps a running total of all journalism jobs lost in the US. It seems 2008 was a banner year for the site: At least 15,554 journalism jobs were lost last year. The 2007 total was 2,185 . Final numbers for North Carolina are not in just yet — we’re still waiting for totals of layoffs announced last year from the Winston-Salem Journal and the News & Record, for example. But the two biggest fish in the pond, the Charlotte Observer and the Raleigh News & Observer, accounted for most of them: almost 450 job cuts between them. The 2009 ticker at Papercuts is well underway, with 327 journalism jobs lost this year as of press time.*************************
E.C. :)
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This is understandable since I am not aware of one newspaper on or off the internet that has anything but commentaries. I remember when the five rules for the first paragraph of any news story was Who, what, where, when, How. Of course I only had one journalism class in my freshman year in college and being me decided I could not be so restrained. So I chose education instead where I had a captive audience!! BB
It is indeed interesting that the particular post on which I decided to stop and leave this comment, also contains a comment from Brenda Bowers. I told Brenda Bowers (And So I Go, Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow), who is a regular reader of my blog, that I wanted to locate other local bloggers who generated articles which stimulated thought, and she suggested that I visit your blog. She also described you as "passionately concerned" about our region. I have to say, after reviewing your articles, that she was correct. I enjoyed the visit and plan to return with some degree of regularity.
Many many thanks for the kind words, Mr. Logistician. I'm impressed with your site as well. I'll be e-mailing you.
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