Visual jobs in newsrooms have fallen by nearly half since 2000

Poynter reporting:
Staff jobs for photographers, artists and videographers reported in the American Society of News Editors’ annual census have dropped 43 percent since 2000, Monica Anderson writes.

By comparison, the number of full-time newspaper reporters and writers dropped by 32%—from 25,593 to 17,422. In the same period, 27% of copy and layout editor and online producer jobs were lost, falling from 10,901 to 7,980.

In the last three years, Anderson notes, jobs in those categories have fallen 18 percent, much faster than copy editors or reporters.

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