The Vostok blog

Via Shaping the Future of the Newspaper blog:

The four largest newspapers in Spain–El País, El Mundo, ABC and La Razón– eliminated 906 work positions between 2003 and 2009, PRNoticias reported yesterday. These layoffs represent 39 percent of the 2,325 staff members the dailies had seven years ago.

According to the 2010 Report of the Journalistic Profession, released last week by Universidad de Malaga, 6,500 Spanish journalists are currently unemployed and the number is expected to increase to almost 10,000 by end of 2010, Xornal de Galicia reported.

There’s something brutal yet refreshing about catastrophes: there’s the opportunity to start over, to do it better.