Bob Papper

Director of RTDNA Annual Survey on local radio and TV news

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And it means that, every day, there are more and more experienced people available to stations to help fill that void.
Bob Papper
Director, RTDNA/Hofstra University Annual Survey

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It’s not about gloating; the vagaries of business and media make that a poor option. But it does mean that, every day, more and more people need local TV news to step up and fill the expanding voids in local coverage.

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But in an unremarked exception, local TV news is doing quite well. The most recent RTDNA/Hofstra University Survey noted that local TV news added 700 jobs last year … to reach the second highest employment level ever – just shy of the all-time record set in 2009.

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A comment on this week’s article in Bloomberg: “Journalism Job Cuts Haven’t Been This Bad Since the Recession (of 2009).” Overall, that’s true, and the just-announced closing of Youngstown, Ohio’s only daily paper reinforces the changing and generally diminishing landscape.