Is The New York Times’ newsroom just a bunch of Ivy Leaguers? (Kinda, sorta.)
www.niemanlab.org
They're not a majority, based on a new look at education data, but they are wildly overrepresented.
  • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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    4 months ago

    I based my title on a couple Bluesky posts I saw.

    From one of those threads

    My sister used to work at the Post. After repeated layoffs, I'd sometimes teasingly start phone conversations with "How are things? Still got a job?" To which she would respond, "As of...[looks at watch] 10:10pm, yes."

    It is so very, very bleak. It matters so very, very much.

  • FumpyAer [any, comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    24,000 seems kind of low for all the newspaper employees in the country. I guess there are a significant number of independent journalists too, though.