In Online Journalism, Burnout Starts Younger – NYTimes.com

In a World of Online News, Burnout Starts Younger

At Politico, the news can start in the darkness before dawn. And turnover can be high.

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/19/business/media/19press.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

Such is the state of the media business these days: frantic and fatigued. Young journalists who once dreamed of trotting the globe in pursuit of a story are instead shackled to their computers, where they try to eke out a fresh thought or be first to report even the smallest nugget of news — anything that will impress Google algorithms and draw readers their way.