04.14.08
ASNE Survey: Over Last Year, Dailies Shrank Their Newsrooms By Biggest Margin In Three Decades
According to a survey given by the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE),CHICAGO U.S. daily newspapers shrank their newsrooms by 2,400 journalists in the past year, a 4.4% workforce decrease in ranks with 52,600 people work full-time in daily newspaper newsrooms now. Minority journalists are most likely to be reporters, with just 11.4% of supervisors being journalists of color and men continue to outnumber women in the daily newsroom by a 63% to 37% margin.