This is just objectively false. My friend is a freelance copy writer and live in the freelance world. It is 100% replacing writing jobs, editing jobs, and design jobs.
To be fair, those jobs were already pretty precarious.
Ever since the explosion in popularity of the internet in the 2000's, anything journalism related has been in terminal decline. The arrival of the smartphones accelerated this process.
Since when? If they're writing online content then that was wiped out somewhat recently by Google changing their search algorithm and killing a huge amount of content based sites
