Job cuts in media topped
30,000 in 2020
by
Keith J. Kelly
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
1/8/2021 9:23:09 AM
The media industry was racked by a record 30,711 job cuts in 2020 — a stunning increase of 201 percent from the year earlier when 10,201 jobs were lost.
The figures, which were rolled out Thursday by outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, included jobs data from the news industry, advertising, television and movie production.
Last year’s dismal results topped the previous all-time record of 28,802 jobs lost in 2008 at the height of the Great Recession. And cutbacks in newsrooms, whether broadcast, digital or print, accounted for more than half the losses, or some 16,180 cuts.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/8/2021 9:25:33 AM (No. 652925)
Not enough.
23 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
JL80863 1/8/2021 9:26:06 AM (No. 652927)
This is not good but hey, it's a start!
18 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
hershey 1/8/2021 9:28:04 AM (No. 652933)
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch...I"ve got a T shirt...
The Worst Virus In America Is The Media
22 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
reefdiver 1/8/2021 9:31:16 AM (No. 652946)
They can join their friends in Antifa and do peaceful news reports.
14 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 1/8/2021 9:35:18 AM (No. 652955)
They are so stupid. They won’t have PDJT to write about. They will have nothing to print or any news to read on TV. No one will watch, buy, or click.
See y’all. Turn out the lights.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/8/2021 9:37:49 AM (No. 652959)
Way short. How about another 30,000.
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
seamusm 1/8/2021 10:03:22 AM (No. 652999)
Who needs them anymore? I can get lies from my two year-old grandkids.
10 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 1/8/2021 10:04:36 AM (No. 653001)
I get no news from the LSM and I get my local weather from my smartphone. Not needing the media for biased news, eschewing pro sports and spending nothing on anything hollywood is my contribution. They made their bed, let them sleep in it.
11 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
john56 1/8/2021 10:07:22 AM (No. 653006)
No liberals were harmed in the layoffs, however.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
TJ54 1/8/2021 10:15:44 AM (No. 653016)
Feel good story of the day!
10 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
anniebc 1/8/2021 10:38:42 AM (No. 653060)
I wouldn't get too excited, folks. This group of 30k are on furlough. Watch the media empires grow once the taxpayers begin funding them. They have to get something out of the new marxism era. We have to start thinking like leftists.
2 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
planetgeo 1/8/2021 10:49:24 AM (No. 653080)
Call me when we see 1,000,000 government workers laid off and communist teachers sitting on their butts at home stop getting paid.
9 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
zephyrgirl 1/8/2021 11:21:37 AM (No. 653148)
And yet not a single journalism school has closed.
6 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 1/8/2021 11:27:26 AM (No. 653163)
Like 60 lawyers in a bus going over a guardrail into a deep canyon......"a good start".
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/8/2021 1:25:49 PM (No. 653326)
Of course, who needs them when all info is filtered through a few elite hands.
Desseminators are a dime a dozen.
2 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/8/2021 2:36:03 PM (No. 653447)
#13, colleges have a choice when students are flunking out. Send them home or transfer them to the journalism major. The top ten percent of the flunkees have the option to pursue the teaching profession.
0 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
judy 1/8/2021 5:55:36 PM (No. 653750)
2021 will be worse...they don't have Trump to slaughter..
0 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
judy 1/8/2021 5:57:32 PM (No. 653757)
The government employees & politicians....the ones who make the rules... checks never stopped....
0 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/9/2021 2:04:22 AM (No. 654174)
Can you imagine the job cuts that could quickly occur within the so-called White House Press Corps if they try to treat Biden as they did Trump and ask anything more than what color socks that Biden is wearing that day. One call from the Biden crew to those reporter’s bosses who are all partisan liberal Democrat supporters will ensure that that offending reporters are out of the White House and most likely out of a job.
0 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
24tea@Mag 1/9/2021 2:17:34 AM (No. 654187)
Let’s hope the loses double in 2021.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
judy 1/9/2021 2:23:03 AM (No. 654190)
Newsmax & OAN are the only reliable news outlets. Newspapers & the major networks are pure liberal garbage. One sided news is what the left wanted & they got their wish... now they want one party rule.
0 people like this.
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