Survey: Journalists Are Not Happy Campers

More journalists are dissatified with their profession.

A survey of 1,080 journalists by Indiana University researchers found 59.7 percent of those surveyed see journalism going in the wrong direction.

Asked what constitutes the most important problem facing the industry today, journalists mentioned declining profits (20.4 percent), threats to profession from online media (11.4 percent), job cuts and downsizing (11.2 percent), the need for a new business model and funding structure (10.8 percent), and hasty reporting (9.9 percent).

The study, “The American Journalist in a Digital Age,” provides some numbers on the deteriorating morale in the country’s newsrooms, following years of layoffs, declining revenues and the still-rocky transition into the digital age.