Census Of Laid Off Journalists Laid Off and Looking

Is the onslaught of layoffs affecting the journalism we all consume?

Jenna and Dom are just two of likely thousands of journalists that have been laid off, taken buyouts or worked for media outlets that simply went out of business. Officially, nobody really knows how many journalists and what demographics they represented in their respective newsrooms are no longer working in the business.

Enter Katherine Reynolds Lewis. She is an award-winning science journalist, author, speaker and founder of the Institute for Independent Journalists (IIJ). Katherine also created the Census of Laid Off Journalists to find out how many people the industry has shed to understand what impact that might have on our information ecosystem.

Headlines:
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Interview:
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Katherine Reynolds Lewis
https://www.katherinerlewis.com/

Institute for Independent Journalists
https://theiij.com/

Census for Laid Off Journalists
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfIkMeHvX3omCYLwa-zEdt4uQpMPf45UZ9iU7Qc82m7BrtuZg/viewform

Headlines:
Byron Allen’s Media Company to Undergo Layoffs
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/byron-allen-media-company-layoffs-1235889191/

Layoffs at Byron Allen’s media company will hit 12% of workforce: sources
https://nypost.com/2024/05/03/media/layoffs-at-byron-allens-media-company-will-hit-12-of-workforce-sources/

Pulitzer Prizes in journalism awarded to The New York Times, The Washington Post, AP and others
https://apnews.com/article/pulitzer-prizes-2024-awards-journalism-arts-reporting-6e07cdcf937d49158d452f2cc0dbc214

Columbia Spectator
Our Campus, Our Crisis
https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/05/04/our-campus-our-crisis/
https://nymag.com/press/article/a-special-report-by-the-columbia-daily-spectator-staff.html

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