Newspaper reporter "topped" the list of CareerCast.com's ranking of the 200 worst jobs in America.
In its comment about the lowly ranking, CareerCast reports: "Readership has steadily moved from print publications, whether they be newspapers or magazine, in favor of online outlets. The resulting decline in advertising revenue has left newspapers-and thus, newspaper reporters feeling the pinch."
It does note the skills of reporters "translate into fields with more promising, long-term outlooks such as public relations, which ranked No. 121 behind the tied nurse/recruiter jobs and ahead of elementary school teacher.
CareerCast says reporters earn $35,267 per-year in a field that has a -13.1 hiring outlook. PR people earn $191,144 in a profession with a 12.4 hiring rating.
Lumberjack, soldier and cook are the jobs ahead of reporter, according to the poll that measured work environment, stress level, income and hiring outlook.
CareerCast's five best jobs are actuary, audiologist, mathematician, statistician and biomedical engineer.
Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post offers this retort today: "The honest truth is that journalism is really damn fun most of the time. That doesn't mean -- this is for you, haters -- that we don't take what we do seriously. We do. But, a profession where you get to not only engage in the daily conversation around politics, pop culture (or whatever) but also write about it for some broader group of people is pretty hard to beat."
Trump Media & Technology Group today reported a $58.2M net loss on $4.1M in 2023 revenues, a disclosure that drove its stock price down 22.6 percent to $47.96.
Barry Pollack, an attorney at Wall Street’s Harris St. Laurent & Wechsler, has registered Julian Assange as a client with the Justice Dept. “out of an abundance of caution.”
Paramount Global to slash 800 jobs in what chief executive Bob Bakish calls part of an effort to “return the company to earnings growth"... Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman is exiting at the end of the month due to disagreements with chief executive Gus Wenner over the direction the magazine is taking... The New York Times broke the $1 billion barrier in annual revenue from digital subscriptions in 2023... Press Forward is investing more than $500 million to strengthen local newsrooms.
The majority of news articles are read within the first three days of publication, according to a recent report.
The Los Angeles Times gives pink slips to 115 people or 20 percent of its newsroom staff... TIME is also laying off about 30 employees, which is approximately 15 percent of its editorial staff... The Baltimore Banner, which was launched by Stewart Bainum in 2022 after he failed to buy the Baltimore Sun, added 500 subscribers per day in the three days following Sinclair Broadcast Group's deal to purchase the Sun.
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