Financial Woes Now Overshadow All Other Concerns for Journalists

According to a new survey, the financial crisis facing news organizations is so grave that it is now overshadowing concerns about the quality of news coverage, the flagging credibility of the news media, and other problems that have been very much on the minds of journalists over the past decade. An ever larger majority of journalists at national media outlets -- 62% -- says that journalism is going in the wrong direction, an increase from the 51% who expressed this view in 2004. Half of internet journalists and about the same proportion of local journalists (49%) also take a negative view of the state of their profession.

This survey was conducted Sept. 17-Dec. 3, 2007 by PSRAI for the Pew Research Center among 585 reporters, editors and news executives. To view more from this survey, click here.

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