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# What Happens to Laid Off Journalists?
- URL: https://onemanandhisblog.com/2009/02/what_happens_to_laid_off_journalists/
- Published: 2009-02-05T17:37:54.000Z
- Updated: 2015-04-08T14:26:10.000Z
- Author: Adam Tinworth
- Tags: Journalism, Journalists, redundancy

Roy Greenslade reports on some chilling research into[ the employment fate of redundant newspaper journalists in the US](http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/feb/05/usa-newspapers?ref=onemanandhisblog.com):

> An American Journalism Review article asks: Is there life after newspapers? To that end, it conducted a survey of journalists on US papers who left their jobs between 1999 and 2007\. And here’s the killer fact: only 6% have since found other newspaper work.

> “The rest are doing everything from public relations to teaching to driving a bus and clerking in a liquor store,” says the writer, Robert Hodierne. And they are earning less.

Something to think about…