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Media Business Burn Out

Strained by stretched budgets, rampant competition, and an 'always on' mentality, the state of the media business is "frantic and fatigued," concludes to The New York Times. As a result, the industry's work horses -- writers, reporters, and editors -- are being pushed to their breaking point. "The pace has led to substantial turnover in staff at digital news organizations," reports The Times.

For one, "Departures at Politico lately have been particularly high, with roughly a dozen reporters leaving in the first half of the year -- a big number for a newsroom that has only about 70 reporters and editors." The demand on content producers for greater output -- at a faster pace, and will fewer rewards -- has industry watchers worried about the future of the news business. "When my students come back to visit, they carry the exhaustion of a person who's been working for a decade, not a couple of years," Duy Linh Tu, coordinator of the digital media program at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, tells The Times. "I worry about burnout."

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