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title: "News Analyst, Reporter, and Journalist"
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# News Analyst, Reporter, and Journalist

**Category:** Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media · **SOC code:** 27-3023 · **O\*NET-SOC code:** 27-3023.00

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 advertised as: Anchor; Journalist; Multimedia Journalist; News Anchor; News Reporter; Reporter; Staff Writer; TV News Anchor (Television News Anchor).

## At a glance

- **Median annual wage:** $62,200 (BLS OEWS, May 2025)
- **Median hourly wage:** $29.91/hr
- **Wage range (10th–90th percentile):** $36,240 to $144,140, with the middle half between $45,370 and $98,450
- **Total US employment:** 39,250
- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's
- **Preparation required:** Medium preparation — O\*NET rates this "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed"
- **Projected growth:** -5.9% over 2025–2035 (BLS EP, 2025–2035)
- **Annual job openings:** 3,400 openings a year
- **AI-resilience score:** 27/100 — a NueCareer heuristic over O\*NET work activities and context, not a BLS or O\*NET figure

## Pay

National wage distribution, BLS OEWS, May 2025, across 39,250 US jobs.

| Percentile | Annual wage |
| --- | --- |
| 10th | $36,240 |
| 25th | $45,370 |
| 50th (median) | $62,200 |
| 75th | $98,450 |
| 90th | $144,140 |
| Mean (average) | $102,460 |

### Pay by state

The 15 highest-paying states, by median annual wage. The cost-of-living-adjusted column divides the state median by that state's BEA Regional Price Parity, so the columns answer different questions: the first is what the job pays there, the second is what that pay buys there.

| State | Median annual wage | Cost-of-living adjusted | Employment |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| DC | $105,390 | $95,895 | 1,720 |
| NY | $100,770 | $93,374 | 5,750 |
| GA | $81,910 | $85,063 | 1,520 |
| NV | $78,550 | $78,566 | 370 |
| RI | $74,570 | $72,908 | 150 |
| MD | $63,680 | $60,671 | 580 |
| MI | $62,760 | $65,228 | 960 |
| TN | $62,390 | $67,911 | 600 |
| VA | $62,140 | $61,461 | 1,110 |
| UT | $61,880 | $62,591 | 240 |
| CT | $61,620 | $59,473 | 470 |
| CO | $60,770 | $58,970 | 590 |
| IL | $60,590 | $60,615 | 1,060 |
| NJ | $59,830 | $54,988 | 500 |
| FL | $58,730 | $56,791 | 2,490 |

34 more states with published wage data are omitted here. The full table for all 49 states is at https://nuecareer.com/careers/news-analyst-reporter-and-journalist/salary-by-state, or as JSON at https://nuecareer.com/api/v1/careers/news-analyst-reporter-and-journalist.

## Outlook

BLS projects employment to move from 47,100 in the 2025–2035 base year to 44,300 by the end of the cycle — a loss of 2,800 jobs, or -5.9%. Declining: -5.9% against 3.5% projected for all occupations over the same cycle. About 3,400 openings a year are expected on average, counting openings from growth as well as from workers leaving the occupation permanently. Source: BLS EP, 2025–2035.

## How to get in

- **Typical entry education:** Bachelor's degree (BLS Employment Projections).
- **Preparation level:** Medium preparation — O\*NET's preparation band for this occupation is "Job Zone Four: Considerable Preparation Needed".
- **Related work experience typically required:** None.
- **Typical on-the-job training:** None.

## What the work involves

- 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.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
- Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
- Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
- Check reference materials, such as books, news files, or public records, to obtain relevant facts.
- Revise work to meet editorial approval or to fit time or space requirements.
- Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.

## Skills and knowledge

### Essential skills

- Active Listening — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Reading Comprehension — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Speaking — importance 4.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Critical Thinking — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Writing — importance 4.0 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Active Learning — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Monitoring — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Learning Strategies — importance 2.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Transferable skills

These are the skills that carry into other occupations, and they drive the related-occupation and career-change rankings on this site.

- Social Perceptiveness — importance 3.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Time Management — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Coordination — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Complex Problem Solving — importance 3.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Persuasion — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Judgment and Decision Making — importance 3.3 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Service Orientation — importance 2.9 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Negotiation — importance 2.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Knowledge areas

- English Language — importance 4.8 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Communications and Media — importance 4.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Computers and Electronics — importance 3.6 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Telecommunications — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Customer and Personal Service — importance 3.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Law and Government — importance 2.7 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

### Abilities

- Written Comprehension — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Written Expression — importance 4.5 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Comprehension — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Oral Expression — importance 4.4 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Deductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale
- Inductive Reasoning — importance 4.1 on the O\*NET 1–5 importance scale

## Who it suits

O\*NET rates every occupation on the six Holland (RIASEC) interest areas, on a 1–7 scale. This occupation's strongest areas are Artistic (A), Investigative (I), Enterprising (E).

| Interest area | Score (1–7) |
| --- | --- |
| A — Artistic | 5.09 |
| I — Investigative | 4.16 |
| E — Enterprising | 3.95 |
| C — Conventional | 3.64 |
| S — Social | 2.80 |
| R — Realistic | 1.47 |

### Personality fit

These scores are **derived by NueCareer**, not published by any government agency: they are cosine similarities between a personality type's trait profile and this occupation's O\*NET interest and work-style ratings, expressed 0–100. Treat them as a starting point for exploration, not as evidence that a type belongs in a job.

| Type | Fit score (0–100) |
| --- | --- |
| ENTP | 71.6 |
| INFP | 70.6 |
| ENFP | 70.3 |
| INFJ | 69.0 |
| INTP | 66.8 |

Best-fitting types: ENTP, INFP, ENFP, INFJ, INTP.

## Related occupations

O\*NET's primary related occupations, in its own ranked order.

- [Broadcast Announcer and Radio Disc Jockey](https://nuecareer.com/careers/broadcast-announcer-and-radio-disc-jockey) — median $47,340
- [Editor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/editor) — median $77,920
- [Poet, Lyricist and Creative Writer](https://nuecareer.com/careers/poet-lyricist-and-creative-writer) — median $76,910
- [Writer and Author](https://nuecareer.com/careers/writer-and-author) — median $76,910
- [Producer and Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/producer-and-director) — median $90,360
- [Media Programming Director](https://nuecareer.com/careers/media-programming-director) — median $90,360
- [Film and Video Editor](https://nuecareer.com/careers/film-and-video-editor) — median $75,420
- [Public Relations Specialist](https://nuecareer.com/careers/public-relations-specialist) — median $74,750
- [Proofreader and Copy Marker](https://nuecareer.com/careers/proofreader-and-copy-marker) — median $51,120
- [Media Technical Directors/Manager](https://nuecareer.com/careers/media-technical-directors-manager) — median $90,360

## Sources

- **O\*NET** — O\*NET 31.0 Database, August 2026. https://www.onetcenter.org/database.html
- **BLS OEWS** — BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. https://www.bls.gov/oes/
- **BLS EP** — BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2, 2025–2035. https://www.bls.gov/emp/
- **BLS OOH** — BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2025–2035 edition. https://www.bls.gov/ooh/
- **BEA RPP** — BEA Regional Price Parities by State, 2024. https://www.bea.gov/data/prices-inflation/regional-price-parities-state-and-metro-area

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