@infovore Thanks :-)
I am not a journalist unless you can count a school magazine reporter lol
And so i believe journalists' decision to use steemit or not will greatly depends on few things:

• the speed of information flow within communities from steemit to the ouside world
• if their targeted community is already in steemit.
  If their news can spread faster than other social media and media houses, then i believe besides money, this can be a huge motivator for them.