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posted by brad wong on 2009.09.17, under journalism
The media alliance known as UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc. announced Thursday that the news industry has lost 35,885 jobs since Lehman Brothers collapsed on Sept. 15, 2008.
Those cuts cover broadcast, newspaper and magazine positions and outpace the national job loss rate by three to one, the group said in its report.
From September 2008 to August, journalists experienced an average monthly job loss rate of 22 percent compared to the national one of 8 percent.
“The news industry has been hemorrhaging jobs long before the economic crisis began last year,” UNITY executive director Onica Makwakwa said in a statement.
“These numbers confirm that the economic downturn has hit the news industry very, very hard.”
