Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than all U.S. workers | Pew Research Center

November 25, 2019

10 charts about America’s newsrooms

Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than all U.S. workers

Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than all U.S. workers

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Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than all U.S. workers

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10 charts about America’s newsrooms
Newsroom employees far more likely than college-educated workers overall to have a degree in arts and humanities
Newsroom employees are more likely to be white and male than all U.S. workers
Newsroom employees with a college degree earn less than college-educated workers overall
Mid-market newspapers in U.S. were most likely to experience layoffs in 2018
About a fifth of newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C.
Four-in-ten newsroom employees working for online outlets live in the Northeast, three-in-ten in the West
A smaller share of U.S. newspapers had layoffs in 2018 but a larger share experienced more than one round