Newspaper journalism in crisis: Burnout on the rise, eroding young journalists’ career commitment

作者：Scott Reinardy · 发表于：Journalism · 年份：2011 · DOI：10.1177/1464884910385188 · 被引用次数：190 · 研究领域：Work-Family Balance Challenges、Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior、Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

The three-component Maslach Burnout Inventory-General Survey was implemented to examine burnout among newspaper journalists ( N = 770). With a moderate rate of exhaustion, a high rate of cynicism and a moderate rate of professional efficacy, journalists demonstrate higher rates of burnout than presented in previous work. Additionally, journalists expressing intentions to leave the profession ( n = 173) demonstrated high rates of exhaustion and cynicism, and moderate rates of professional efficacy, making them ‘at-risk’ for burnout. Also, 74.5 percent of journalists 34 and younger ( n = 223) either expressed intentions to leave newspaper journalism or answered ‘don’t know’. The most ‘at-risk’ to burnout appear to be young copy editors or page designers working at small newspapers.