CareerCast | The Wall Street Journal
CareerCast’s annual report of the “Top 200 Jobs of 2014” has “newspaper reporter” at No. 199 — one slot better than lumberjack, which beat it last year. Some of the jobs better than newspaper reporter, per CareerCast: enlisted military personnel (198), butcher (179), actor (151), security guard (134). “Publication editor” comes in at 139 (I’ve known some who would have made great butchers) and photojournalist comes in at 186, just below welder and just above police officer.
- This person has it worse than you. (AP Photo/Armando Franca)
In its blurb about newspaper reporting, CareerCast says it’s a “job that has lost its luster dramatically over the past five years is expected to plummet even further by 2022 as more and more print publications abandon operations.”
It even found someone at the nexus of journalism and logging: Eric Johnson, the executive editor of Northern Logger magazine. “The two industries have changed dramatically since I started,” Johnson said.
Writing about last year’s report, Will Oremus noted it “ignores intangibles like autonomy, excitement, or fulfillment.”
