How to turn 44,000 into 6,600-journalists that is

This is the number of journalists that you would need if all of America's papers were to go online as Ken Doctor explains:

Let's figure there are 44,000 journalists left in US newsrooms, an up-to-date tally hard to come up with. So, if the industry magically flipped that switch tomorrow, we've got an estimate of how many online-only published could pay: 6600 journalists, and that's at the optimistic 15% number. Of course, many papers don't need to and won't flip the switch; recall that the US news industry should still take in $36 billion+ in revenues this year (down from $47 billion in 2005). But the number -- 6600 -- sticks in your brain.

Ht-Jay Rosen