This is the second of a two-part post; read part one here.
In 2004, the number of newspaper newsroom staff topped 71,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Since then, it has declined by more than half. If we want to make up that loss, we’d need to add back about 41,000 newsroom staff.
But that’s not quite right. We don’t actually know precisely how many local reporters there are.
