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 and Technology Group Corp. has replaced CEO and former California Congressman Devin Nunes with Kevin McGurn, a seasoned media sales executive.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette is being bought by the Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism, a nonprofit that is the parent organization of the Baltimore Banner... The British Broadcasting Corporation is axing approximately 2,000 jobs, about 10 percent of its work force... Snap, the company behind Snapchat, is also succumbing to layoff fever, announcing plans to lay off 16 percent of its employees, about 1,000 people.
CBS News Radio will go off the air on May 22, part of the axe-swinging managerial plan put into play by CBS editor-in-chief Bari Weiss... The Economist, which was first published in 1843, is changing hands. Canadian billionaire Stephen Smith has agreed to acquire a 26.9 percent stake in the publication from Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, her family and family foundation... Nexstar Media Group says it has closed its acquisition of TEGNA, the broadcast, digital media and marketing services company that was formed in 2015, when the Gannett Company split into two publicly traded companies.
USA TODAY brings on Jamie Stockwell as VP of news, effective March 30. Stockwell was most recently deputy managing editor of news for the Washington Post... YouTube expands its likeness detection capabilities to a pilot group of government officials, journalists and political candidates... The AP Fund for Journalism adds 50 news organizations to its local news program, bringing the total number of participating newsrooms to 100. 
Versant Media Group, the NBCUniversal cable TV spin-off, today reported its first financial results as 2025 revenues dipped 5.3 percent to $6.7B and standalone EBITDA dropped 9.1 percent to $2.2B.
