Laying off full-time journalists in favor of relying on freelancers and syndicated content providers has become an increasingly common strategy for media companies seeking to maintain their profits.
Nearly 16,000 layoffs and buyouts at newspapers occurred in 2008, for instance, according to the “Paper Cuts” blog, which tracks job losses at newspapers, and nearly 3,800 were let go or bought out in 2011.
Many of these laid-off reporters—accustomed to being covered for libel, slander and other standard claims by media-insurance policies at their large organizations—became freelancers and lost the protection of those policies.
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