Digital Publishing Headcount Passes Newspapers

For the first time in history, the number of employees involved in digital publishing has surpassed the number of employees in the legacy newspaper business, according to the latest figures from the government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. 

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In February,  the total number of employees in U.S. digital publishing reached 197,200, per the BLS, up from 193,500 the month before and 178,900 a year previously. Total employment in the newspaper industry dipped to 184,800, down from 196,100 during the same month a year previously.

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The digital publishing figures actually refer to total employment across “Internet publishing and broadcasting and Web search portals” (including Google), while the newspaper industry’s figures include employees involved in digital publishing, and therefore probably overlap with the former to some degree.  

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