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News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists Career, Salary and Skills

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists have a BLS-reported national median annual wage of $62,200 based on the 2025 OEWS dataset, with reported national employment of 39,250. Wage data is published for 164 locations.

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Occupation description

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.

O*NET code

27-3023.00

Job zone

4

Typical education

Not recorded

Experience

Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years

National salary and employment

Median annual

$62,200

Hourly median

$29.91

Employment

39,250

Data year

2025

National salary distribution

$36,240
10th
$45,370
25th
$62,200
Median
$98,450
75th
$144,140
90th

Top skills

SkillImportanceLevel
Active Listening4.504.38
Reading Comprehension4.384.38
Speaking4.254.25
Critical Thinking4.124.25
Writing4.004.38
Social Perceptiveness3.753.88
Active Learning3.754.00
Time Management3.623.25
Coordination3.383.38
Complex Problem Solving3.383.25
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Typical tasks

  • 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.
  • Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
  • Investigate breaking news developments, such as disasters, crimes, or human-interest stories.
  • Select material most pertinent to presentation, and organize this material into appropriate formats.
  • Report on specialized fields such as medicine, green technology, environmental issues, science, politics, sports, arts, consumer affairs, business, religion, crime, or education.
  • Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
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Technology

  • Adobe After Effects
  • Adobe InDesign
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Apple Final Cut Pro
  • Audion Laboratories VoxPro
  • Avid Technology Pro Tools
  • Desktop Technologies NewsBoss
  • ESRI ArcView
  • Facebook
  • FileMaker Pro
  • Grass Valley EDIUS
  • Hypertext markup language HTML
  • IBM SPSS Statistics
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News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists salary by location

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Career and skills data: O*NET 31.0 (onetcenter.org). Salary and employment data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS, 2025 (bls.gov/oes). Figures are published survey estimates, not real-time market data.