Local television newsrooms across the nation lost jobs at a 4.3 percent rate last year — slower than the 11.3 percent loss in newspaper jobs. Salaries of local TV news crews declined 4.4 percent nationally  last year.

That’s according to the 2009…

“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…

Israel has dropped plans to let foreign reporters into Gaza to cover the ongoing fighting, despite the wishes of journalist groups and the Israeli Supreme Court,  the Associated Press is reporting.

Journalists say Israel is trying to manage the news. Israel…

Maura J. Casey of the New York Times editorial staff laments the dwindling number of journalists in a column titled “When the Watchdogs Don’t Bark.”

“If the power of journalism is measured by its ability to spark anxiety in government officials,…

Editor & Publisher says the massive job cuts at newspapers across the county is the top newspaper industry story of 2008.

Here’s what Joe Strupp of E&P, a newspaper industry journal, has to say about No. 1 on its Top Ten list:

“1.…

There’s an interesting give-and-take going on between many in the media and the GOP about examining the record of Sarah Palin. Even as  journalists report on Palin,  they also seem to feel the need to rationalize doing so.

The New York…