More Americans now work for online-only publishing outlets than newspapers, according to a recent report by Nieman Journalism Lab that culled 26 years of monthly employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As of March 2016, Internet-only publishing and broadcasting jobs now employ about 198,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. By contrast, the newspaper publishing industry now accounts for a current workforce of about 183,000. That industry peaked in June 1990, when there were nearly 458,000 jobs, and has dropped nearly 60 percent since.
Nieman points out that employment at online-only outlets appears to have first eclipsed traditional newspaper publishing jobs in October 2015. Nieman also notes that while online-only jobs began to gain momentum in the late 90s to account for about 112,000 jobs by 2000, the dot-com crash cut that workforce number in half. Digital publishing gained its strongest footing in wake of the 2008 financial crisis, Nieman reports, and the number of jobs in that field has doubled since.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, another news industry similarly hurt by the Internet is radio broadcasting, where employment has declined by about 27 percent since 1990. On the other hand, employment in the motion picture and video production industries has risen more than 160 percent in that time, from about 92,000 jobs to a current labor pool of about 239,000.
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