Think journalism’s a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age

An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper in Richmond, Va. Everett Historical/Shutterstock.comThe internet has upended the journalism industry – and not in a good way. Over the past decade, over 100,000 journalism jobs have been shed, while advertising revenue has fallen US billion since 2004. Sponsored content is on the rise. Reporters have been suspended for fabricating aspects of their stories. And, yes, entire stories have been made up out of thin air. Not surprisingly,