There's one large repercussion of online journalism on journalists themselves that hasn't really been disucessed in any great detail. Online news is becoming more and more about the individual reporter. They must maintain blogs and twitter updates and keep the website up to date with the latest news (which now has the most miniscule of turn around times). The stress on a person of maintaing all this is incredible.

But the main point I was to make is that, in a tradtional newsroom, it was very easy for a journalist to take holiday time and he/she would be covered by another staffer. This si not the case anymore, the highly demanding twitter followers and readers of their blogs will not wait for a journalist to rest for a week or two like they themselves would expect to be able to do. This new breed of news consumers are demanding and if a journalist neglects them, even for their own well-being, they will migrate.

I think too much is being expected of journalists today. Convergence is all well and good, but the benefit of convergence is that a journalist can report in the most appropriate medium, not report in all media, all the time. There will come a stage where media employers are just expecting far too much of their employees. A worker of any kind can only take so much, that time has not yet come, but it will!