This study explores the reasons why women are entering the media industry more than ever before, but the number of women executives in the newsroom is still stagnant. This study examines whether organizational factors(e.g., journalist morale, gender d...
This study explores the reasons why women are entering the media industry more than ever before, but the number of women executives in the newsroom is still stagnant. This study examines whether organizational factors(e.g., journalist morale, gender discrimination) and the incongruence of values between journalists and the newsroom(e.g., ideological orientation, journalistic principles) affect women journalists’ intentions to leave the newsroom. The researcher conducted a secondary analysis of journalists' responses (N=644) from the 15th journalist survey conducted by the Korea Press Foundation in 2021. The results showed that the more women journalists perceive low morale within the newsroom, the more gender discrimination they perceive, and the more they perceive incongruence between the newsroom and the journalistic principles they pursue, the higher their intentions to leave the newsroom. Psychological burnout played a mediating role in this process. The ideological conflict between women journalists and the newsroom did not have a direct effect on intention to leave the newsroom, but when women journalists experienced high psychological burnout due to the ideological conflict, the intention to leave the newsroom increased. Further results and implications are discussed.