PRs without journalists – what would be the point?
How-Do reported the sad news that The Metro is making redundancies. This is especially sad for me because many journalists are based in Manchester and this is, I believe, the fourth biggest selling daily.
Journalism is a precarious business. It is not often well-paid in relation to the pressures of the role. And it is not always appreciated, I believe, by many PR professionals.
I came across this entry from the Editorialiste, a US based journalist blog, that has quotes frighteningly high numbers of journalists wanting to leave the profession, especially the younger ones.
What can we as PRs do about it? Not much. But we can appreciate that without them we would not be in work.
Tags: Journalists, redundancies