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Seattle P-I Poised To Go Online-Only; HarperCollins Launches New Imprint
March 6, 2009
Working in the media industry has been depressing lately, but it could be worse: While more than 7,000 media types lost their jobs in the first two months of 2009, more than 70,000 workers from the retail and automotive sectors found themselves out of work during the same time period. Probably not much of a comfort to our unemployed friends, but worth noting nonetheless...
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