Overview & Salary
Overview
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.
On the job, you would:
- Write commentaries, columns, or scripts, using computers.
- Coordinate and serve as an anchor on news broadcast programs.
- Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members.
Education
- bachelor's degree
Salary
Annual 10th percentile $31,550
Annual median $57,500
Annual 90th percentile $160,360
Knowledge & Skills
Knowledge
Arts and Humanities
- English language
Communications
- multimedia
- telecommunications
Safety and Government
- law and government
Engineering and Technology
- computers and electronics
Skills
Basic Skills
- listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
- reading work related information
Problem Solving
- noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
Social
- understanding people's reactions
- changing what is done based on other people's actions
Personality & Abilities
Personality
Artistic
People interested in this work like activities that include creating, designing, and making your own rules.
- Dependability
- Attention to Detail
- Integrity
- Initiative
- Stress Tolerance
- Achievement/Effort
Abilities
Verbal
- communicate by speaking
- listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
- make general rules or come up with answers from lots of detailed information
- create new and original ideas