1 in 4 media jobs now in internet/mobile publishing & online broadcast ::millennial media::

Few industries have been affected by the digital or information age as much as newspapers and other traditional publishing industries (books, magazines, etc.). In June 1990, there were nearly 458,000 people employed in the newspaper publishing industry; by March 2016, that figure had fallen to about 183,000, a decline of almost 60 percent. Over the same period, employment in Internet publishing and broadcasting rose from about 30,000 to nearly 198,000.

See full data from the U.S. Department of Labor

It’s unfortunate that the internet category used in these stats was discontinued in a 2007 rewrite of the NACIS (North American Industry Classification System) by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. After 2007, it indicates that what used to be internet publishing and broadcasting is now grouped in an “other information services” (see http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag516.htm) category that includes, among other things, libraries. Not terribly helpful for our industry.
It raises several questions about how the BLS put together the chart that was the original peg for this posting.