Here’s some sobering news for anyone in journalism school: media layoffs are at their highest level since 2009.
Nearly 15,500 media jobs were axed last year, according to a new report from executive placement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas released on Thursday. That includes publishing, broadcasting, television and movie jobs.
Most of those job losses came from news organizations, however, where 11,878 people were laid off in 2018 — a spike of 281 percent from 2017, when about 4,000 people in the industry were let go.
The 2018 cuts were the most since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2009, when 22,346 people lost their jobs.