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The Geographic Concentration of the Media
New York, Washington and Los Angeles dominate. That might have something to do with declining trust in the industry.
There's a bus leaving for New York.
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During the great newspaper collapse that began in about 2006, national newspapers based in New York held up a bit better than regional ones, and Washington bureaus often survived even as papers axed every other outpost. At least, that was my impression. And sure enough, it shows up in the jobs data:
Just to be clear: Newspaper employment has been falling everywhere, from 360,491 jobs nationwide in 2006 to 190,357 in 2015. It’s just been falling less in the New York and Washington areas. Interestingly, newspaper wages have been rising faster in New York and Washington than everywhere else.