Small and large publications hold their own in employees

AFP - Newsroom jobs slumped another 10.4 percent to the lowest level since tracking began in 1978. The annual survey by the American Society of News Editors found newsroom employment dropped to 32,900 in 2014 from 36,700 a year earlier.

But the results also showed some gains in large-circulation newspapers and some very small ones.

ASNE found the number of employees at newspapers with daily circulations between 250,000 and 500,000 increased by 13.98 percent.

Those with circulations under 5,000 had a 15.9 percent increase in the number of employees.

But the drop was a whopping 21.58 percent among newspapers with circulations between 100,000 and 250,000.