The Media Bubble Is Real — And Worse Than You Think
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These bubbles represent the 150 counties with the most newspaper and internet publishing jobs. | Illustration by DataPoint
Zac Moffatt
2570 days ago
Where newspaper jobs are spread nationwide, internet jobs are not: Today, 73 percent of all internet publishing jobs are concentrated in either the Boston-New York-Washington-Richmond corridor or the West Coast crescent that runs from Seattle to San Diego and on to Phoenix. The Chicagoland area, a traditional media center, captures 5 percent of the jobs, with a paltry 22 percent going to the rest of the country