Set your sights on being an assignment editor, photojournalist, tape editor or producer. These positions pay relatively well, though the high-end potential is lower. Stations get loads of tapes for reporter jobs. I've found that it's not unusual to get a hundred applications for every one reporter opening. In fact I get about five tapes a month whether I have an opening or not.
Stations get very few bites for producer jobs.
For every major-newscast producer opening, I get about five applications if I'm lucky, and I never, ever get an unsolicited producer tape. Reporter and producer jobs pay about the same. Do the math. You'll have to start in a small market. Unless you are fabulously good, you'll have to start at the bottom if you want an on-air position.