TV STATIONS ADD NEWS JOBS WHILE NEWSPAPERS CUT THEM

While the nation’s leading newspapers continued to cut jobs and outsource work during 2011, radio and TV news outlets appeared quite healthy, according to a study conducted by the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and posted on the Poynter.com website. The average number of staffers in the newsrooms of television stations rose 4.3 percent […]

STUDY: FIRINGS SLOW IN TV NEWSROOMS

A study conducted by the Radio-Television Digital News Association (RTDNA) and Hofstra University has found that 400 local TV journalists lost their jobs in 2009 — a relatively small drop compared with the previous year when some 1,200 were laid off. According to the study, 60 percent of news directors polled said they do not […]