Exodus of journalists to PR a wake-up call for media
Maybe instead of lambasting them on Twitter for leaving, we should be asking ourselves why so many young journalists are abandoning an industry they worked incredibly hard to break into
The phenomenon of journalists leaving the industryto go into PR is not a new one, but it seems to have picked up the pace in recent months. Sarah Bardon, political reporter with The Irish Times, left to become press adviser to Minister for Health Simon Harris; Paul Hosford, reporter with TheJournal.ie, joined Gordon MRM; Newstalk sports broadcaster Oisin Langan joined Wilson Hartnell; and Conor Brophy, business reporter atRTÉ and Sunday Business Post columnist, ...
