Understanding job loss among journalists

Abstract

Journalism has undergone a profound process of transformation in the 21st century, accelerated by the emergence and adoption of digital technologies. While such technologies have provided journalists, other media occupations, and media organisations with new opportunities and possibilities, they have also created threats and challenges (Deuze & Witschge 2020; Zion et al. 2018). The emergence of new platforms for creating, collecting, and distributing content has fundamentally disrupted the traditional news media model, which was an exclusive right to deliver the news, and to attract the associated advertising dollars attached to the news audience. Instead, social and digital media has fractu..