GraphicDesignr is tracking newspaper layoffs with a nice interactive Google Map graphic called "Paper Cuts." Here's what it looks like as of this afternoon:
Each pushpin corresponds to a newspaper, and each is color-coded according to the number of jobs lost (white is 1-25; red is 100+). Click that red dot in the Southern California media market, for instance, and this informative graphic appears:
According to GraphicDesignr's calculations, 3,020+ newspaper jobs have been eliminated so far in 2008 (not counting unfilled positions). That's in addition to 2,000+ positions cut in the last seven months of 2007. Reporter, can you spare a dime?
And a very happy Memorial Day to all!
Each pushpin corresponds to a newspaper, and each is color-coded according to the number of jobs lost (white is 1-25; red is 100+). Click that red dot in the Southern California media market, for instance, and this informative graphic appears:
According to GraphicDesignr's calculations, 3,020+ newspaper jobs have been eliminated so far in 2008 (not counting unfilled positions). That's in addition to 2,000+ positions cut in the last seven months of 2007. Reporter, can you spare a dime?
And a very happy Memorial Day to all!
Oy vey.
Posted by: liprap | May 23, 2008 at 05:57 PM
Oy vey.
Posted by: liprap | May 23, 2008 at 05:58 PM
Oy oy vey vey indeed.
That's 5000+ jobs in about one year's time, and the wave doesn't seem to have reached the nation's midsection. Yet.
Posted by: Kevin | May 23, 2008 at 09:25 PM
Thanks for posting this, Kevin. I've been citing it in conversations for the last few days. It's really quite terrifying, but also a good motivator for people to adapt and change with the times.
Posted by: Matt Davis | May 28, 2008 at 02:49 PM
Thanks for posting this, Kevin. I've been citing it in conversations for the last few days. It's really quite terrifying, but also a good motivator for people to adapt and change with the times.
Posted by: Matt Davis | May 28, 2008 at 02:50 PM