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<\/a><\/p>\nSource<\/a><\/p>\n At the NY Times overall, 55% of staff are men and 45% are women.<\/p>\n 2 out of 3 journalism students are women<\/a> and it has been that way for a decade.<\/p>\n Employment in newsrooms has plummeted: Newsroom jobs and employment in the U.S.: 10 charts about the industry | Pew Research Center<\/a><\/p>\n One out of every 5 newsroom workers, is based in Washington, DC, New York City, or Los Angeles and 1 in 4 live in the northeastern U.S. 40% of those working for “online” news businesses, live in the northeast.<\/p>\n According to the US BLS, the median pay in journalism is about $49,000\/year. At the Washington Post, the average pay is about $70k\/year<\/a>.<\/p>\n But college-educated newsroom employees tend to make less money than college-educated workers on the whole. The median earnings of newsroom employees with a college degree are about $52,000 a year, compared with roughly $61,000 for all college-educated workers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Yet many of those entering the field attend private colleges with list prices of $60,000 to $80,000\/year, and many then earn a Master’s in journalism at elite universities, where the list price is $100,000 to $150,000.<\/p>\n About 80% of newsroom staff have a college degree and 77% of those degrees are in the arts and humanities.<\/p>\n Compare the 77% of humanities degree holders to the overall population:<\/p>\n College-educated workers overall, by comparison, are much more likely than those working in newsrooms to have bachelor\u2019s degrees in science, engineering and related fields (45% vs. 16%) and business (22% vs. 5%), as well as education (10% vs. 3%).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n An estimated 11% of journalists have a Master’s degree<\/a>.<\/p>\n For comparison,<\/p>\n