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Journalism job losses: tracking cuts across the industry

Posted: 11/12/08 By: Laura Oliver

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As the downturn in advertising, falling print circulation and wider economic crisis tighten their grip on the journalism industry, news of redundancies and job losses has become all too frequent.

According to FT.com, a Deloitte report this week says there's more to come, with one out of every 10 print publications predicted to half frequency, go online-only or close down in 2009.

Below is a timeline plotting journalism job losses since April 2008 across all media and around the world.

The tool, which aggregates articles, video and images, as well as updates from the Paper Cuts blog, can also be viewed as a list, flipbook or map using the menu bar.

This is not an exhaustive index of job losses and is currently UK and US-centric. To help us build a better picture of the situation internationally leave a comment or email laura at journalism.co.uk or judith at journalism.co.uk. You can also update the timeline on Dipity by creating your own Dipity account.

To follow updates for the timeline, you can subscribe to the RSS feed: http://www.dipity.com/Journalismcouk/personal/rss, or follow @journojobcuts on Twitter.

This page is intended as a resource for journalists both following the changes in the industry and facing redundancy, so please follow, contribute and help us build our list of useful links below, which will be regularly updated.

Links
Reporting journalism job cuts
Graphic Designr's map of US newspaper buyouts and layoffs - http://graphicdesignr.net/papercuts/
Themediaisdying Twitter account - http://www.twitter.com/themediaisdying
Martin Gee's Flickr set 'Reduction in Force' - images of layoffs at the San Jose Mercury News - http://www.flickr.com/photos/hellvetica/sets/72157604470612285/
Gannett blog - http://gannettblog.blogspot.com
NUJ's map of newspaper cuts/office closures in UK - /shorturl/RWYFJ/
Newspaper Death Watch blog - http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

Sites for journalists
UK's National Union of Journalists (NUJ) - http://www.nuj.org.uk
UK's Broadcasting Entertainment Cinematograph and Theatre Union (BECTU) - http://www.bectu.org.uk
Typepad journalists bailout programme - http://www.typepad.com/blogging/bailout.html
Mashable's list of 100 job sites (predominantly US-orientated) - http://mashable.com/2008/12/16/find-jobs/

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