“The media is slashing jobs again as the Trump news cycle fades and the economy struggles.”

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 “The media is slashing jobs again as the Trump news cycle fades and the economy struggles.” Kaplan comments on the current state of the media industry, which he says was already facing an “inexorable decline”  before the pandemic. “They have probably six months before it really gets bad. Once people are vaccinated and go back to doing the things that they’re used to doing, I think it’s going to fall off the cliff again,” Kaplan says.