Newsroom Training Study

The Newsroom Training Study, conducted via telephone from January 23 to March 13, 2002, interviewed 1,178 editors, reporters, producers, on-air talent, and other staff members.

In 1993, a newspaper training survey titled "No Train, No Gain" found that 1 out of 10 news staffers was receiving regular training. The 2002 study, the largest ever survey of newroom training, found that 3 out of 10 news staffers are getting regular training.

Key Findings from the 2002 study:

1. Training shortages concern journalists
   
   
2. Executives agree more training is needed
   
   
3. Executives say budgets are big problems…
   
   
4. …but so is lack of time
   
   
5. Training demand greatly exceeds supply
   
   
6. Training gap is widest in TV newsrooms
   
   
7. Higher training budgets? Not for most
   
   
8. Training coordinators: ‘the elite few’
   
   
9. Basic skills training is more likely
   
   
10. Most training is done in-house
    
    
11. Execs favor quicker, less-costly training
    
    
12. Staffers favor longer, off-site training
    
    

Complete 2002 survey results can be found at:
Poynteronline: No. 1 Complaint of U.S. Journalists is Lack of Training