The Newspaper Journalists of the '90's Getting Online Less than a third of journalists are regular users of the Internet. Supervisors are more likely to use the Net than reporters. Minority groups are more likely to be plugged in than whites.
Most journalists believe the jury is out on online newspapers.
Another new issue on the 1996 survey was interest in the Internet. Thirty percent of newsroom journalists say they are regularly using the Net, but reporters are not leading the way in this regard. This is surprising, considering the vast reporting resources available on the Internet. Newsroom supervisors, editorial writers, photographers and artists are more likely to be the regular ''Netizens'' than reporters or copy editors. There seems to be a generation gap regarding the Internet.