Half Of Journalists Considering Leaving The Profession; Other Results From The PRWeek/PR Newswire Survey

Journalists may be fleeing the profession en masse this year if the 2009 PRWeek/PR Newswire survey is any indication. 70 percent of you are working longer hours this year, and 1/5 say you’re asked to do work that isn’t in your job description. (Most of that, it seems, is blogging—28 percent of journalists at traditional publications report blogging is part of their job now too, a 6 percent increase from last year.) Half of journalists surveyed say they’re considering careers outside journalism.