Last week, Time Out eliminated the job of senior editor and critic Kris Vire.
The fact is that arts coverage and the journalism jobs that go with it have been vanishing for a while. “The first major die-off was in the early 2000s, as the Internet started to take hold,” said Douglas McLennan, the Seattle-based founder and editor of the online Arts Journal, a daily digest of English-language arts and culture reporting. “Over a period of about six years, about half of the staff arts journalism jobs at newspapers went away. Then, around 2009, during the economic downturn, there was another big slashing of arts coverage.” Now, he says, in the last six to nine months, we’ve been seeing “the third kill.”
So what does that say about the future of arts journalism?
