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Digital Job Shift::The Difficulty of Putting a Number on Journalism Jobs

by (author unknown), MediaShift

My story on the shift of journalism jobs from traditional to new media has been causing a stir among media folks, who either see the same shift happening in front of them or think Iâ€™m being overly optimistic. Leading the charge against my story was author and blogger Nicholas Carr, who...

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More than one third of the world’s people live in countries where there is no press freedom.
Reporters Without Borders, 2006

Today, more than 130 journalists around the world are in prison simply for doing their job.
Reporters Without Borders
Russia was the first country to establish a continuous, government-funded radio broadcast.
Westover, 2003

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Libya has no independent broadcast or print media.
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Citizens of Burma risk arrest for listening to the BBC in pubic.
Committee to Protect Journalists, 2006

In 2005, Turkmenistan closed all public libraries, except one which houses the books of the “President for Life,” Saparmurat Atayevich Niyazov. It is illegal to import foreign publications.
Committee to Protect Journalists, 2006

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