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• 6AM City has 15 newsletter job titles on file. The New York Times has 9 2026-10-29. 15 of the 38 6AM City rows in our base have "newsletter" in the job title, against 9 of 2,168 New York Times rows; 201 of the 127,602 editorial rows carry the word.
• How many journalists are in the US? 2026-10-26. The BLS counts about 47,100 news analyst, reporter and journalist jobs in the US in 2025; our base holds 69,377 US editorial staff at 6,345 outlets, 30,040 of them editors and 22,945 reporters.
• 13 of 127,602 newsroom journalists name Substack in their profile headline. 850 name a podcast 2026-10-22. 13 of the 127,602 editorial rows in our base mention Substack in the profile headline, against 850 that mention a podcast, 191 a newsletter and 2,165 freelance work.
• The BBC has almost as many AI jobs as all of journalism has poverty reporters 2026-09-27. The BBC has 5 staff with AI in their job title; across the 127,602 journalists in our base, 6 have poverty or inequality in theirs.
• AI in Journalism 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 48 AI in journalism statistics for 2026: how many journalists and newsrooms use AI, newsroom AI rules, what audiences think, how accurate AI tools are with news, plus JournalistLabs counts of AI job titles.
• Journalist 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 64 journalist statistics for 2026: how many journalists there are, jobs, pay, who they are, local news, safety and trust, plus JournalistLabs counts from 127,602 job titles.
• PR Pitching 2026 Statistics (Updated September) 2026-09-24. 47 PR pitching statistics for 2026: pitch response rates, why journalists ignore pitches, when and how to pitch, what studies of press releases found, plus JournalistLabs counts of who there is to pitch.
• Britain has 19 royal journalists on file and 2 cybersecurity reporters 2026-09-16. 19 of the 12,094 UK rows in our 127,602-row base carry a job title that names the royals and 2 carry a title that names cybersecurity, and both counts are floors.
• 47% of Business Insider newsroom titles carry a rank word. Sveriges Radio: 1% 2026-09-16. 135 of Business Insider's 286 editorial rows carry a rank word in the job title and 9 of Sveriges Radio's 764 do, the top and near the bottom of the 194 outlets with 100 or more rows in our 127,602-row base.
• Journalism has 63 AI job titles on file. The biggest desk is the BBC's five 2026-09-16. 63 of the 127,602 editorial rows in our base carry an AI word in the job title, at 48 outlets, and the biggest single group is the BBC's five.
• The NYT lists 1.8 editors per reporter. The BBC lists 1.9 reporters per editor. 2026-09-15. The New York Times lists 1.81 editors per reporter on file and the BBC lists 1.89 reporters per editor, across the 40 largest newsrooms in our 127,602-row base.