Journalists Edge Up on Endangered Jobs List

An American recruitment website has put newspaper reporters on its list of endangered jobs.

According to CareerCast's latest forecast, reporting jobs in the US are expected to drop 13% by 2022. Here's the dismissive statement of doom:

"Declining subscription and dwindling advertising sales have negatively impacted the hiring power of some newspapers, while others have ceased operations altogether.

Online outlets continue to replace traditional newspapers, and the long-term outlook for newspaper reporters reflects the change."

CareerCast notes that redundancies in the newspaper industry are commonplace because advertisers have slashed their print budgets by nearly 30% since 2009, citing a NewspaperDeathWatch.com report.

One other obvious casualty of newspaper decline are printing workers. They are on the endangered jobs list with an expected 5% decline in positions by 2022.

Fewer newspapers means less demand for newsprint, of course. So the contraction of the press as people move from print to digital is also having an impact on the logging industry.

It means that lumberjacks are also an endangered species with an expected 9% decline in logging industry employment.