When I have journalists visit the classroom at George Mason University,
students always want to know about salaries. Needless to say, they're
usually disappointed with what they hear.
According to the
2004
Annual Survey of Journalism and Mass Communication Graduates, conducted
by the University of Georgia's James M. Cox Jr. Center for International
Mass Communication Training and Research, online salaries of recent
graduates are highest.
The survey found that the average online media salary in 2004 was $32,000;
the median salary for TV was $23,492; for cable TV, $30,000; for daily
newspapers, $26,000; for weekly newspapers, $24,000; for radio, $23,000; and
for consumer magazines, $27,000.
I graduated with an online journalism degree in 2002 and...
