Thursday, July 05, 2007
'The connection between quality and head count'
Jack Shafer crunches the numbers and finds that, despite recent newsroom cuts at the NYT and Washington Post, there are still about twice as many staffers as there were in 1972, as the Vietnam War raged and as Watergate began. ... He suggests newspapers can still pull it out. But tell that to journalists handed pink slips. ...
Jack Shafer crunches the numbers and finds that, despite recent newsroom cuts at the NYT and Washington Post, there are still about twice as many staffers as there were in 1972, as the Vietnam War raged and as Watergate began. ... He suggests newspapers can still pull it out. But tell that to journalists handed pink slips. ...
