Here’s the problem with this - starting salaries out of j-school have ALWAYS been shitty. Somewhere in a box at my mom’s house, I have the packet of info I was given by KU’s journalism school during my HS visit that contains a sheet with starting salaries of recent grads.

KU has one of the best undergrad journalism programs in the nation, and yet, the starting salaries listed ON THEIR PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL were under $20k/year. Yes, this was 13 years ago, but still. Outside of a very small (if vocal and noticeable) minority of journalists, the pay for reporting and commenting on current events has ALWAYS been shit.

hunterwalker:

Columbia j-school students received emails last week inviting us to apply for an assistant editor “fellowship” with the Columbia Journalism Review, a full-time position that pays only $27,000 a year. Unsurprisingly, there are a lot of jobs out there that pay more— like working at McDonald’s, selling your eggs, or even impregnating cows.

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