{"id":20632,"date":"2026-04-02T09:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T17:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/?p=20632"},"modified":"2026-03-31T12:05:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T20:05:47","slug":"media-journalism-jobs-fall-by-57-since-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2026\/04\/02\/media-journalism-jobs-fall-by-57-since-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Journalism jobs fall by 57% since 2010?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Other reports say the 57% drop occurred since 1980, and there has been a 25% drop in journalism degrees awarded since 2002. Regardless, there has been a loss, especially in traditional &#8220;newspapers&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BLS says average starting pay is about 50k\/year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the next decade, most job openings will come from replacement of retiring or departing workers; no growth in jobs is expected. These forecasts seem to have been made prior to the advent of AI-generated stories and AI-fact checking &#8211; which may reduce the number of jobs. Some employers have said the use of AI tools has increased productivity by 20% &#8211; which could mean that they need 20% fewer workers or perhaps everyone can have a 4 day work week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Journalism jobs in America dropped 57% since 2010. The ones that exist start at $48k with a $65k debt load. <br><br>Day 85 tagging <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikeroweworks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mikeroweworks<\/a> and I can\u2019t wait until I type day 365.<br><br>The average pipefitter starts at $72k, earns foreman pay of $110k within 3 years, and works in an\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/S3e7C1seJd\">pic.twitter.com\/S3e7C1seJd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Hector Resendez &#8211; Trade School Secrets (@TS_Secrets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TS_Secrets\/status\/2038938814270390353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The job market for journalism grads has dropped sharply. The 57% claim may actually be from 1980, not 2010, though. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20642,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20632\/revisions\/20642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}