How widespread is the departure of traditional print journalists for Internet companies?
Responses to the survey indicate that many newspapers are experiencing turnover as employees leave traditional newsrooms for Internet jobs. Of the 47 newspaper editors responding, 37 or 79 percent said at least one person had left their newsroom in the past 12 months to join an Internet company. Larger newspapers are the hardest-hit by departure to dot-coms. Of the 10 newspaper editors who said they had not lost any staffers to Internet jobs, only one had more than 200 employees in the newsroom. And the very largest newspapers had the biggest number of departures. At newspapers with more than 300 employees, 13 said they had lost more than four employees to the Internet in the past 12 months. Only four newspapers with more than 300 employees had lost fewer than four employees. 2. Why are journalists leaving traditional newsrooms? Seventy percent of the editors responding to the survey cited the chance to be part of something new as the number one reason employees are leaving print newsr
