A silly comparison

The Herald reports:

A survey by The Spinoff in 2024 estimated New Zealand had about 1400 journalists left.

“This is fewer than the number of journalists employed by the New York Times,” writes Ellis, citing the Times’ website stating the company has 1700 journalists.

This sounds terrible, but the NY Times services a population of 20 million in NY state – as opposed to a NZ population of five million. They are also a de factor national newspaper for the US population of 340 million. It has 11.3 million paid subscribers – twice the NZ population. So of course they employ more journalists.