The stereotype is that they make very little...Is this true? Do you think pursuing a career in journalism could be fruitful? I mean if you have a major news outlet on your resume wouldn't it at least prove that you are a good writer, and aren't companies always looking for good writers?
Newspapers are just tools for billionaires to spread their propaganda at this point. Journalism doesn’t exist.
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The top journalists make a lot. But when they say journalists don’t make much they mean on average or typically.
Depends what your goal is. There simply are not a lot of jobs and they are not revenue generators. Media companies make money on ads not content. So they need good content cheap to fill pages/air. On-air talent like Anderson Cooper is like an NFL QB - there are only a couple handfuls that make that type of career and money. Top ESPN talent similar. But lots of turnover. You can make pretty good living being a top writer for a top magazine but again it's a scarcity game, there are only so many top mags anymore and only so many writers per mag. Small playing field. Your average local paper/TV person is on par with teaching pay - enough to make a living but not enough to ever buy that boat or summer place in palm springs. I have a Journalism BA and sad I never used it in the sense of what I got it for, to be a pro writer. Just wasnt worth the hassle for shitty jobs. YMMV depending where you live and opportunities there and your talent vs. what income you want to make.
Anderson copper hot his cut at channel 1. That man walked from buildings in Bosnia two seconds before they collapsed in the 1990s. He earned those while hairs
It’s a complicated question. I taught at a top j-school for years, I still don’t think it’s worth 40k/year if you’re getting paid 30k in your first job. But, there’s tons of people in PR/Marketing that moved over from journalism. Unless you’re in a union shop, your salary will top out pretty quickly. Average in DC is around 70k for print. If you have to start out in a small city, you’ll get screwed. They’ll give you a big speech about being the guardians of democracy to justify paying you nothing. If you’re in broadcast, and you go network, you’ll see a bump. EP’s around 170-200k. The only way you’ll see real money is if you become a exec. Or high end talent. If you want to do it. Work for AP for 5 and get out. It’s a great job with a less than great career path.
I have a master’s from a top J-school and make 32k in the NYC area currently, but that’s because I work small local news. It varies so wildly in the current market, tbh. Largely depends on the size of the pub you get in with.
Yeah, I taught at a j-school for a while. Always felt bad that students were paying 40k+ in tuition for that type of ROI.
Part of my decision to even go was def the healthy financial package and shortness of the program, which made the cost a small fraction of what it would be, but still. I knew what I was getting into, and I think you really have to be aware and not have any starry-eyed ideas about the industry when you decide to pursue it or else you’re gonna be real effed and disillusioned the end of it.
Entry level for journalists at decent publications is like 50k. Bloomberg is an exception: 75k iirc