Newspaper reporters on list of most endangered professions for second year in a row

Newspaper reporters may soon go the way of ice-cutters, rat-catchers, lamplighters—all extinct like the dinosaurs because of technological advancement.

This has been predicted by CareerCast.com, which is the Internet's premier career site for finding targeted jobs.
 
For the second consecutive year, the site has put newspaper reporters in its list of endangered jobs along with mail carriers, meter readers and farmers.
 
According to the site, internet is posing the most serious challenge to the print media, threatening to reduce the number of newspaper reporters by 13 percent in the next seven years.
 
“Another industry in decline is the media industry, which is undergoing a profound transformation as outlets work to keep up with evolving technology,” the site pointed out, projecting a grim future for the profession.
 
“From its earliest days, the internet has posed a challenge to those steering the course of newspapers, as more people began viewing their news digitally,” it added.
 
CareerCast predicted that the decline in the once venerated job would even outpace those of logging workers (9 percent), jewellers (10 percent) and flight attendants (10 percent).
 
Mail carrier is the most profoundly impacted of the 10 most endangered jobs, expected to lose 28% of its workforce by 2022, according to the career site.
 
This, however, is not the first time the newspaper industry has found its place in the site’s dubious list.
 
Last year, it had put newspaper reporting at number four on its list of endangered jobs, ahead of travel agents and lumberjacks.
 
In 2013, it termed the newspaper journalist as the worst profession on its list of 200.
 
It cited how advertisement revenue of newspapers was falling, leading to severe job cuts in top publication houses like the Los Angeles Times to substantiate its prediction.
 
“Almost a decade ago, the newspaper industry began a severe decline in hiring that is yet to cease,” it added.