Volume : VIII, Issue : II, February - 2019

A Study of Professional Burnout in Newsrooms of Top Media Houses in New Delhi

Dr. Pramod Kumar

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Once a lucrative profession, journalism today is among the worst jobs. Studies reveal that by the year 2022 the number of newspaper reporters will decline by 13%. The factors responsible for it are identified as low salary, job insecurity, uncertain working hours, high rate of professional burnout and increasing risk of even death, as the journalists have to put themselves in dangerous places during reporting. In India, 11 journalists were killed in 2017. The Upper House of Indian Parliament on Feuary 7, 2018 was informed that 90 cases of attacks on journalists were reported between 2015 and 2017 in India. Since 1992, a total of 1,305 journalists, including 47 in India, were killed worldwide in 26 years—either murdered or killed in crossfire or on dangerous assignments (Express News Service, 2018). Experts say if the deaths of journalists who died under their 50s in recent 5-10 years are seriously investigated, stress will come out as the prime reason of their untimely demise. Studies show that many budding journalists are reluctant to continue in newsrooms and many have quit the profession within two years of joining it. The health risks emerging in the newsrooms invite urgent attention

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A STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL BURNOUT IN NEWSROOMS OF TOP MEDIA HOUSES IN NEW DELHI, Dr. Pramod Kumar GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS : Volume-8 | Issue-2 | February-2019

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