How the newsroom’s workforce is dramatically shrinking
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Alex aka Chief WOWness+
CEO and Founder of Press42.com, a site that wants to bring startups to the right bloggers, founder at Inkzee.com, co-founder and curator of Tetuan Valley, an international startup incubator based in Madrid, startup mentor at HackFWD, Springboard, Seedcamp, Wise Guys or Huge Things, partner at Okuri Ventures, Sandbox network Madrid Ambassador, Global Shaper by WEF and Startup Digest Madrid curator.
The rise of all things digital is having a massive impact on the traditional newsrooms. A quick look at the previous chart highlights the trend. The newsrooms workforce across U.S. is reaching its lowest level since 1978. The rise of technology creates system efficiencies which allow for smaller workforces. Still, one has to wonder what are we losing in the process while we wait for the new techno-journalists to be created.
Source: Newsonomics: The halving of America’s daily newsrooms
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