Newspaper journalism in crisis: Burnout on the rise, eroding young journalists' career commitment

Journalism

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-50

  Reinardy, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

burnout; MBI GS; newspaper journalists

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952756320     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884910385188     Document Type: Article

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