Digital news is making the industry more concentrated in a few geographic areas, rather than making it more geographically diverse

You might have heard: Jobs in the journalism industry are clustering around a few major cities: In 2014, 1 out of every 5 reporting jobs was in Washington, D.C., New York City or Los Angeles; in 2004, that number was 1 out of every 8

But did you know: The promise of digital news was that it would make the news industry more geographically diverse, allowing people to work from anywhere, Joshua Benton writes. But instead, digital news has made the industry more concentrated in a few geographic areas, including New York City and Washington, D.C. That concentration has an effect on who enters the industry, as some people just aren’t interested in living in New York City, as well as how well the news industry represents its readers: College educated liberal arts graduates who live in cities, a characterization that most journalists today fit into, tend to be more liberal than the average American.

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