Millions of Americans Are Being Laid Off, Journalists Included

Joel Kaplan, Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Studies and professor of magazine, news and digital journalism in the Newhouse School, was interviewed for the CNN story, “Hundreds of journalists are being laid off, right when the public needs them the most.” The global pandemic has forced millions of Americans to be laid off as the economy takes a turn for the worst. In the story, Kaplan discusses the recent layoffs in the world of journalism and its potential impact going forward.