Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media · Holland code AIE
News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists
Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.
Also called: Anchor, News Anchor, News Reporter, Reporter, Journalist, Multimedia Journalist, Staff Writer, TV News Anchor (Television News Anchor).
O*NET 27-3023.00
At a glance
- US median annual pay
- $62,200
- Middle half earn $45,370 to $98,450. BLS OEWS, May 2025.
- Preparation needed
- Job Zone 4 of 5
- Considerable preparation. Zone 1 is little or none; zone 5 is graduate-level.
- US employment outlook, 2024 to 2034
- -4% · Decline
- 49,300 jobs in 2024, projected 47,400. BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, which groups this with similar roles as "News analysts, reporters, and journalists".
What the work involves
The tasks workers in this occupation rate as most important, from the O*NET survey.
- Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
- Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.
- Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
- Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
- Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.
- Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
- Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
Skills and knowledge it leans on
Skills
- Active Listening4.5 / 5
- Reading Comprehension4.4 / 5
- Speaking4.3 / 5
- Critical Thinking4.1 / 5
- Writing4.0 / 5
- Active Learning3.8 / 5
Knowledge areas
- English Language4.8 / 5
- Communications and Media4.7 / 5
- Computers and Electronics3.6 / 5
- Telecommunications3.1 / 5
- Customer and Personal Service3.1 / 5
- Law and Government2.7 / 5
Importance ratings on O*NET’s 1 to 5 scale. Higher means the occupation depends on it more.
Who tends to enjoy it
How strongly this occupation draws on each of the six Holland interest types, which is the same profile the career interests test compares you against.
- Realistic8
- Investigative53
- Artistic68
- Social30
- Enterprising49
- Conventional44
The same work abroad
Other countries classify jobs differently, so these are the closest matches through the international ISCO-08 standard, not exact equivalents.
European occupation titles (ESCO)
- journalist · DE Journalist/Journalistin · FR journaliste
- fact checker · DE Faktenprüfer/Faktenprüferin · FR vérificateur de faits/vérificatrice de faits
- foreign correspondent · DE Auslandskorrespondent/Auslandskorrespondentin · FR correspondant de presse/correspondante de presse
- magazine editor · DE Zeitschriftenredakteur/Zeitschriftenredakteurin · FR rédacteur en chef de magazine/rédactrice en chef de magazine
- newspaper editor · DE Zeitungsredakteur/Zeitungsredakteurin · FR rédacteur en chef/rédactrice en chef
- sports journalist · DE Sportjournalist/Sportjournalistin · FR journaliste sportif/journaliste sportive
Closest UK occupation groups (SOC 2020)
- Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors (2491)43,100 employed
- Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters (2492)45,100 employed
- Business and related research professionals (2434)62,500 employed
Employment is the UK Annual Population Survey for April 2025 to March 2026, all workers in the group, which can be broader than this one occupation.
Japan
Japan classifies jobs in its own way. The closest category that names the same work is “著述家，記者，編集者”, which may be narrower or broader than this occupation.
- Median monthly pay
- ¥352,700
- Middle half earn ¥267,600 to ¥479,000 a month.
- Workers in the category
- 43,770
- Regular employees in firms of ten or more.
Scheduled monthly pay before tax, excluding overtime and bonuses, so it is not comparable to the annual figures above. Source: Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Basic Survey on Wage Structure 2025, via e-Stat, under the Japanese Government Standard Terms of Use. The category match was made by hand.
Pay across Europe, for the whole group
Median annual earnings of all employees in “Professionals”. This is the broad ISCO group this occupation falls in, not the occupation itself, so treat it as context for the wage level, not as a salary for this job.
| Country | Median pay |
|---|---|
| Belgium | €61,714 |
| Germany | €59,529 |
| Ireland | €56,877 |
| Austria | €55,374 |
| Netherlands | €53,595 |
| Sweden | €43,567 |
| France | €41,515 |
| Spain | €35,735 |
| Italy | €33,649 |
| Portugal | €26,072 |
| Poland | €14,380 |
Eurostat Structure of Earnings Survey, businesses with ten or more employees outside public administration, in euro and not adjusted for the cost of living. Reference years differ between sources: the US, Japan and Europe figures on this page come from different survey years, so compare them as rough levels, not to the euro or yen.
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