Ebyline Blog :: When the Federal Reserve released a report last month about the plummeting net worth of Americans over the last decade, the thought occurred to us that if anyone were worse off than the nation as a whole it might be journalists. After all, inflation-adjusted wages have been stagnant in the U.S. for years and you’d be hard pressed to find an American industry that suffered as sharp a contraction in the last decade (or in any decade) as the news business, right?
"Wrong" (at least partly, follow the links below) - A report by Susan Johnston | Peter Beller, ebyline.biz
HT: Andrew Beaujon, Poynter ("Reporters make 8 percent less than typical Americans"), via John Robinson: "One of the reasons I left the editor's job was that I couldn't bear telling the staff no raises for another damn year."
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