About a fifth of newsroom employees live in New York, Los Angeles or D.C. % of U.S. employed adults by metro area, 2013-2017 Note: Based on population ages 18
New York, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., are the financial, entertainment and political capitals of the United States – and that may help explain why they are home to a disproportionately large share of the nation’s newsroom employees. About one-in-five newsroom employees (22%) live in these three metro areas, which, by comparison, are home to 13% of all U.S. workers, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data covering the period from 2013 to 2017.
Long known as the media capital of the world, New York, at 12%, has the greatest share of all U.S. newsroom employees – those who work as reporters, editors, photographers and videographers in the newspaper, broadcasting and internet publishing industries. This is more than twice the share living in the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., metro areas, which are each home to 5% of the nation’s newsroom employees.
About a fifth of newsroom  | employees live in New  | York, Los Angeles or D.C.  | % of U.S. employed adults by  | metro area, 2013-2017  | SENET 22%  | SENET 13%  | Washington, D.C.  | 2  | metro area  | Los Angeles  | metro area  | 12  | New York  | metro area  | All U.S. Newsroom  | workers employees  | Note: Based on population ages 18  | and older employed in the civilian labor  | force. For a full definition of newsroom  | employees see the methodology.  | Source: Pew Research Center analysis  | of U.S. Census Bureau 2013 2017  | American Community Survey 5-Year  | Public Use Microdata Sample file.  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 