7% of American newspaper employees now work at the NYT. The NYT has 1,700 newsroom employees. (www.niemanlab.org)

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[-] InevitableSwing@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I based my title on a couple Bluesky posts I saw.

From one of those threads

My sister used to work at the Post. After repeated layoffs, I'd sometimes teasingly start phone conversations with "How are things? Still got a job?" To which she would respond, "As of...[looks at watch] 10:10pm, yes."

It is so very, very bleak. It matters so very, very much.