04.17.2009 11:08 am

Survey of newsrooms finds that 5,900 lost jobs last year

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

“American daily newspapers shed 5,900 newsroom jobs last year, reducing their employment of journalists by 11.3 percent to the levels of the early 1980s,” the American Society of News Editors reports in its annual survey of newsrooms.

ASNE reports that the percentage…

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03.02.2009 1:50 pm

Newspaper editors cancel annual convention, cite challenging times

By Steve Parker

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The American Society of Newspaper Editors, has announced that the group had canceled its annual convention set for April 26-29 in Chicago. The reason given: “The challenging times faced by its members.”

ASNE President Charlotte Hall said the group’s leaders had “concluded that…

Tags: American Society of Newspaper Editors, ASNE, Charlotte Hall, Chicago, newspaper industry

Survey of newsrooms finds that 5,900 lost jobs last year

Newspaper editors cancel annual convention, cite challenging times

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