The radio newsperson in a large market might manage it too. But that fresh new reporter you see on television may have to make do with the car she got back in high school. Rank and file pay is a turnoff in the electronic media. My Freedom Forum-sponsored survey of nearly 1,800 TV journalists found they typically liked their work but were disappointed with their pay. That it does.
Turnover is great.
The typical TV or radio journalist has been working at the same station about three years and out of school only eight years. Those medians indicate lots of exits. But, especially for TV news, vacancies will bring no shortage of applicants. And young degree-holders struggling to make ends meet.