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Preparing for a Career in Journalism
What Does It Take to Be a Reporter?
How to Become a Fashion Journalist
How Much Do Reporters Get Paid?
How Much Does a Journalist Earn?
Qualifications for Journalism
What Are Different Aspects of Journalism?
What Education Is Required to Be a Journalist?
What Is the Average Salary for a Sports Journalist?
What Is the Meaning of Journalism?
What Is the Work Environment for a Journalist?
What Is the Job of a Fashion Journalist?
What Does It Take to Be a News Reporter?
What Is an Investigative Journalist?
What Is Attack Journalism?
What Is Gonzo Journalism?
What Is It Like to Be a Reporter?
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Summary: A starting salary for a reporter working for a conventional media outlet is just under $30,000 a year, but it is still possible to make good money in the field of journalism. Find out why many reporters never make great salaries with help from a journalism professor in this free video on careers in journalism.
Ken Blake, Ph.D., is a Middle Tennessee State University journalism professor, and associate director and co-founder of the MTSU Poll, a statewide telephone poll conducted twice a year...read more
"So how much do reporters get paid? Well the short answer is not much. A starting salary for a reporter working for a conventional media outlet is just under $30,000 a year. You are going to make a lot more if you go into say nursing or one of the hard sciences like computer science or something like that. You are certainly not going to get rich quickly and odds are you won't get rich ever working as a reporter. There are other rewards perhaps in the career but monetary rewards aren't very high on the list. That said, it is possible to make a lot of money as a reporter particularly outside conventional journalism. Consider a website like Craig's List for example. Here is a site that is essentially a newspaper with only classified ads without all the content that typically goes around the classified ad. That site makes a bunch of money and in many ways does what journalism typically does in the sense that journalism takes information that an audience wants or needs, compiles that information and gives it to the audience and attracts an audience in that way. So part of the answer depends on how you define a reporter and if you are willing to innovate and be creative and come up with a good idea it is possible to make quite a bit of money doing what reporters typically do but if you are talking about mainstream reporting and if money is really important to you you might want to consider something else."
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