Editing Journalist (section)

==Modern overview==
A worldwide sample of 27,500 journalists in 67 countries in 2012–2016 produced the following profile:<ref>Thomas Hanitzsch, et al. eds. ''Worlds of Journalism: Journalistic Cultures around the Globe'' (2019) pp. 73–74. [https://www.amazon.com/Worlds-Journalism-Journalistic-Cultures-Institute/dp/0231186436/ see excerpt]</ref>
*57 percent male; 
*[[Arithmetic mean|mean]] age of 38
*mean years of experience, 13
*college degree, 56 percent
*graduate degree, 29 percent
*61 percent specialized in journalism/communications at college
*62 percent identified as generalists 
* 23 percent specialized as hard-news beat journalists
*47 percent were members of a professional association
*80 percent worked full-time
*50 percent worked in print, 23 percent on television, 17 percent on radio and 16 percent online.

In 2019 the [[Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism]]  Digital News Report  described the future for journalists in [[media of South Africa|South Africa]] as "grim" because of low online revenue and plummeting advertising.<ref>{{cite web |title=Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2019 |url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/DNR_2019_FINAL.pdf |website=Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism |publisher=Thomson Reuters}}</ref>

In 2020 [[Reporters Without Borders]] secretary general [[Christophe Deloire]] said journalists in developing countries  were suffering political interference because the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] had given governments around the world the chance "to take advantage of the fact that politics are on hold, the public is stunned and protests are out of the question, in order to impose measures that would be impossible in normal times".<ref name="Kaamil Ahmed">{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Kaamil |title=Covid-19 could trigger 'media extinction event' in developing countries |work=The Guardian |date=May 6, 2020}}</ref>

In 2023 the closure of local newspapers in the US accelerated to an average of 2.5 per week, leaving more than 200 US counties as "news deserts" and meaning that more than half of all U.S. counties had limited access to reliable local news and information, according to researchers at the [[Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications]] at [[Northwestern University]].

In January 2024,  [[The Los Angeles Times]], Time magazine and [[National Geographic]] all conducted layoffs, and [[Condé Nast]] journalists went on strike over proposed job cuts.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fu |first1=Angela |title= Tuesday was a bleak day for the media industry |url=https://www.poynter.org/commentary/2024/los-angeles-times-time-magazine-national-geographic-news-layoffs/ |publisher=Poynter |date=January 24, 2024}}</ref> The Los Angeles Times  laid off  more than 20% of the newsroom.<ref>{{cite news |last1=James |first1=Meg |title=L.A. Times to lay off at least 115 people in the newsroom |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-01-23/latimes-layoffs-115-newsroom-soon-shiong |publisher=L.A. Times |date=January 23, 2024}}</ref>
[[CNN]], [[Sports Illustrated]] and  [[NBC News]] shed employees in early 2024.<ref name="Getting Grimmer">{{cite news |last1=Robertson |first1=Katie |title=The News About the News Business Is Getting Grimmer |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/business/media/media-industry-layoffs-decline.html |date=January 24, 2024 |work=New York Times}}</ref> [[The New York Times]] reported that Americans were suffering from "news fatigue" due to coverage of major news stories like the [[Hamas attack]], [[Russian invasion of Ukraine]] and the [[2024 United States presidential election|presidential election]].<ref name="Getting Grimmer" /> American consumers turned away from journalists at legacy organizations as [[social media]] became a common news source.<ref name="Getting Grimmer" />