Laut einer us-amerikanischen Studie (PRWeek/PR Newswire Media Survey 2009) denkt die Hälfte der befragten Journalisten darüber nach, den Job zu wechseln. Weitere Resultate:

...70% of journalists say their workload is more this year compared to last. ...58% of print media respondents expect their outlet to publish a regular print product indefinitely, compared to 64% last year; 11% say one to three years, compared to 9% last year; and 9% expect it to remain for another four to five years, similar to last year. ...77% of respondents have a social network profile, up from 54% last year. Of those who participate in social networking, 58% have profiles on Facebook, 51% on LinkedIn, and 28% and 22% are on MySpace and Twitter, respectively. Of those with a social networking presence, 25% publish content to those pages several times a week, while 13% do so several times a day.