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The Era of Abundant Labor Reporting Coming to an End
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 Mar. 5, 2024 | LABOR | […] The economic death spiral of the journalism industry – caused by Google, Facebook, and other tech middlemen sucking all the profits out of the business - has arrived in its full, dreadful glory. All we have now are layoffs, shuttering publications, and a bunch of reporters hoarding their severance pay and desperately looking for new gigs that don’t exist. When there are no reporters around to cover what unions are doing, their campaigns become like trees falling in the forest with no one to hear them. It is hard to threaten union busting bosses with bad publicity when there is no publicity to be had. It is hard to get a community to rally around newly organized workers when there is no local news coverage. It is hard to convince America that organized labor should be the beating heart of our political system when all of the writers who were supposed to be capturing that stirring message are instead out looking for freelance advertising jobs to pay the rent… Why does this matter? Read more In These Times
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