Do Journalists Hate Their Jobs? (The Atlantic Wire)

The Atlantic Wire - An informal survey of 146 journalists who lost their jobs two years ago when the Rocky Mountain News closed has
revealed a surprising finding: A majority of the journalists who've left
the industry say their lives are now better--even though most are making less money. The results come from John
Temple, the former publisher of the paper. In a piece
for The Atlantic, Temple writes that a number of his former employees
say "more time with family, learning new skills, and new opportunities
made up for the loss of a job."His survey found that 70 percent of the laid off journalists are
making less money today than they did at the Rocky Mountain News. So
what's happening here? Is journalism such a soul-crushing profession
that when its adherents leave and subsequently earn less money they're
actually more satisfied? Maybe, maybe not. If anything, the experience
of journalists at the Rocky Mountain News seems to be an outlier. Another recent survey
by The Journalism Shop, questioned 124 writers, editors, news editors,
managers and artists who were laid off at The Los Angeles Times. Though
the respondents weren't directly questioned about quality of life, the
responses were anything but upbeat. “Week-to-week takes on a whole new meaning,” wrote a man in his 40s.

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