A study examined the effects of employee turnover (employees who were fired, laid off, retired, or left for other reasons) and mobility (employees who left one newspaper to work for another newspaper or other journalism medium) on small daily newspapers (under 25,000 circulation). The study surveyed 300 newsroom editors and 600 reporters (with a response rate of 46% for editors and 43.5% for reporters) for information about the town where their newspapers were located, the newspaper, staff size, number of staffers who left and reasons reporters gave when they left the newspaper within the preceding 12 month period. Editors were asked to list their newspaper's advantages and disadvantages, what they thought of their newspaper's quality, management training they had received, and how they used such basic management skills as feedback and evaluation. Work history and basic demographic data were gathered from both editors and reporters, and reporters were asked job satisfaction questions. Findings revealed that the turnover and mobility rates were generally similar to those of small businesses or the media in general, although high job movement did take place on the smallest newspapers (circulation under 4,999) responding to the survey. Results showed that a larger issue than turnover and mobility was the small staff size of these newspapers, which editors listed as a top concern and reporters listed as a main complaint. (Nine tables of data are included, and three pages of footnotes are appended.) (MM)