It's 2 a.m. after a crazy production day. Why?
I have promised to myself: if one day I could not get H-1b visa to do journalism in America, my case needs to show and persuade everyone that the American dream system is problematic. It's not based on merits or talents.

I have talked about H-1B visa sponsorships in news industry on Twitter multiple times, but every time I can only say the number is pathetically low without any stats because there aren't any statistical research on this specific topic. https://twitter.com/YuanRuby/status/1051543328301375489

Thanks to @gaufre's Python class, I looked into H-1B sponsorship numbers in the news industry. Two data websites are available, @USCIS and @myvisajobs. I decided to use @myvisajobs because it tells whether a newsroom actually sponsors a NEWS-related job. https://twitter.com/YuanRuby/status/1113237175582154752

. @myvisajobs allows me to find H-1B petitions by job title keywords. Here are my keywords: "Reporter(s)", "Editor(s)","Producer(s)","Correspondent(s)" and "Journalist(s)." Basically, I gathered all 2018 petitions that CONTAIN one of the words above in their job titles.

Here are top 20 newsrooms. Yes, as I observed before ( https://twitter.com/YuanRuby/status/1113239992506048513), Bloomberg filed the most news job related H-1B petitions, and that number is 29.

Now, let's take a look of 2017 statistics. Coding module is there, why not? Same method and keywords. The total number of petitions/entries is 1013. Here are top 20 newsrooms that filed the most news job related H-1B petitions in 2017.

Tonight’s last note: these numbers are petitions, aka applications. Some of them got certified and some of them got denied.