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Newspaper reporter rated worst job in America
• http://www.fox5ny.com,CareerCast just published its Worst Jobs of 2016 list.
The survey put the annual median salary of a print reporter at $37,200.
It is the third year in a row that a newpaper reporter ranked as the worst job. Being a broadcaster didn't fare much better. It came in third worst on the list.
"The news business has changed drastically over the years, and not in a good way," says former Broadcaster Ann Baldwin, president of Baldwin Media PR in New Britain, Connecticut. "When people ask me if I miss it, I tell them 'I feel as if I jumped off of a sinking ship.'"
The report says that one factor that has many media jobs among the worst is the decline of advertising revenue. And, a drop in advertising sales translates to a decline in positions for advertising sales people. Advertising Sales Person appears on the 10 worst jobs list for the first time (#193), after finishing just outside the bottom 10 a year ago.