Journalists are notorious drama queens when it comes to their own industry. Still, this has been an undeniably bleak start to the year. So far in 2024 there have been lay-offs at The Wall Street Journal, Time, Business Insider, LA Times and Sports Illustrated, plus the abrupt closure of media start-up The Messenger. On Thursday, Vice News announced hundreds of lay-offs and said that it would stop publishing on its website. As fear permeates the sector, the lure of a more independent career is growing brighter. Who wants to labour in an unstable newsroom job when you can become a content creator and post your work yourself?
眾所周知，一說到自己所在的行業(yè)，新聞記者總愛大驚小怪。然而，今年新聞業(yè)確實開年不利。進入2024年以來，《華爾街日報》(The Wall Street Journal)、《時代周刊》(Time)、《商業(yè)內(nèi)幕》(Business Insider)、《洛杉磯時報》(LA Times)和《體育畫報》(Sports Illustrated)都裁員了，還有，初創(chuàng)傳媒公司The Messenger突然關(guān)門。上周四，Vice News宣布裁員數(shù)百人，并表示將停止在其網(wǎng)站上刊登新聞。