Newspaper Reporter Still the Worst Job in America

Accuracy in Academia ^ | April 21, 2016 | Don Irvine

[Academiadotorg]

For the second year in a row, and third out of the last four, being a newspaper reporter ranks as the worst job in America.

The Jobs Rated Report has been compiled by CareerCast since 1988, and ranks 200 U.S. jobs based on a wide range of criteria that includes income, outlook, environmental factors, stress and physical demands.

Just ahead of newspaper reporter is the job of logger/lumberjack, which finished at number 199 for the second straight year after being dead last in 2014.

Another media-related job—broadcaster—came in at number 198, with an equally glum outlook for the future.

For some people leaving the news business was a sigh of relief, according to CareerCast:

'The news business has changed drastically over the years, and not in a good way,' says former Broadcaster Ann Baldwin, president of Baldwin Media PR in New Britain, Connecticut. 'When people ask me if I miss it, I tell them ‘I feel as if I jumped off of a sinking ship.'

Baldwin’s time in the media, working at TV stations in the Rocky Mountains as well as Hartford, Connecticut, helped prepare her for her new career—providing public relations solutions and crisis management for businesses.

Even though job losses in the print and broadcast news business have generally slowed from a few years ago, both groups are still under intense pressure to rein in costs and improve profits.

CareerCast’s outlook for both newspaper reporters and broadcasters predicts negative growth of 9% through 2024, which means that these high stress, low paying, jobs are likely to remain among the worst jobs in America for the foreseeable future.

Editor’s Note: The original post was posted at Accuracy in Media’s website.

[Vaduz]

How can being a newspaper reporter ranks as the worst job in America you get paid to make things up and lie too yeah that’s the ticket.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Last year's worst job 'Media Whore' was replaced by this year's worst job 'Assistant Media Whore'.

(with apologies to Norm MacDonald)

[CriticalJ]

Maybe it would be a better job if they actually reported instated of disseminating propaganda.

[IronJack]

Yet these hacks still strut around like they're the envy of the ball.

I would encourage a young person to become a 10-buck-a-throw prostitute at the nearest truck stop before I'd advise them to become a journalist.

[FreedomOfExpression]

From the title, I wondered whether the article was saying that reporters do worst at their job compared to other people, or if the job itself is worst in comparison to other jobs.
After reading the excerpt I know the gist of the article, but I still think the former is more true.

[seawolf101]

I stopped reading the newspaper many years not just because of bad reporting but also because of extremely poor grammar. I do not proclaim to be an English teacher but the local newspapers were extremely difficult to read. There were so many errors that I simply could not follow what they were trying to say. If they can’t even bother to learn to write at a grammar school level then we can forget asking them to show any integrity in their articles.

I read an article online that 6% of the population still trusts the media. I couldn’t believe it was that high. Who in their right might could trust anything the media says nowadays. I think that this was a rigged poll.

[hout8475]

[Intolerant in NJ]

The media jobs once coveted are now scorned...they did it to themselves with their constant and blatant partisanship, manipulation of the truth and arrogant bias.....

[Academiadotorg]

When I started out 35 years ago, if editors wanted to heap praise upon your copy, they would say, “It’s good English.” I doubt that they can pay anyone that compliment anymore.