Shrinking employment field

Some figures on copy editors from the 2005 newsroom census from ASNE:

• Newsrooms lost nearly 1,000 reporters, nearly 600 editors, nearly 300 photographers and artists and just over 400 copy editors from 2001 to 2005.
• Men make up 65.2 percent of all supervisors. They are also 58.8 percent of all copy editors, 60.1 percent of reporters and 72.6 percent of photographers.

Last year, 65.8 percent of all supervisors were men. They were 58.6 percent of all copy editors, 60.4 percent of reporters and 73.9 percent of photographers.