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Think journalism's a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age

  • Written by Randall S. Sumpter, Associate Professor of Communication, Texas A&M University
An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper in Richmond, Va.Everett Historical/Shutterstock.com

The internet has upended the journalism industry – and not in a good way.

Over the past decade, over 100,000 journalism jobs have been shed, while advertising revenue has fallen US$30 billion since 2004.

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