Seven Months After P-I’s Close, Intelligencers Are Unhappier, Unemployed

Ruth Teichroeb, formerly an investigative reporter with the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, surveyed her colleagues to see what’s happened to them since Hearst closed the print edition in March and turned it into an online operation employing 85 percent fewer people.

Out of the 140 who lost their jobs, 71 responded to the informal survey:

• 23 have new full-time jobs, half in journalism.
• Three are working part-time
• Six have started their own businesses
• 18 are freelancing or working on a journalism startup while collecting unemployment
• 14 are in school, studying education, web design, marketing, art, and paralegal
• Two retired; four are spending time with their kids while jobhunting, and one received a journalism fellowship

For more survey findings—who’s happier? Who’s financially solvent?—read the original post.

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