journalism: what to expect and how to get started
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Journalism: what to expect and how to get started. David Ricketts. Journalism career so far…. Hull University BA (Hons) English and American Studies, 2002-2005. Cardiff University Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism 2006-2007. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Journalism: what to expect and how to get startedJournalism: what to expect and how to get startedDavid Ricketts
Journalism career so far…
Hull University BA (Hons) English and American Studies, 2002-2005.Cardiff University Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism 2006-2007.Joined Financial Times Business in 2007 as reporter on Pensions Week.Ignites Europe in 2008 as reporter. Now associate editor.
Source: ABC
Print circulation on the decreasePrint circulation on the decrease
National dailies 2012 average 2011 average % changeDaily Mirror 1,077,683 1,153,776 -6.60Daily Record 273,688 301,501 -9.22Daily Star 596,108 688,719 -13.45The Sun 2,519,911 2,770,405 -9.04Daily Express 561,273 621,075 -9.63Daily Mail 1,920,801 2,044,347 -6.04The Daily Telegraph 570,817 620,946 -8.07Financial Times 298,070 354,926 -16.02The Herald 45,493 48,569 -6.33The Guardian 210,660 2 48,958 -15.38i 279,309 183,978 51.82The Independent 90,258 167,271 -46.04The Scotsman 35,330 40,536 -12.84The Times 400,238 436,729 -8.36Racing Post 49,091 53,236 -7.78
First Telegraph redundancies revealed as title cuts 80 journalism jobs
Daily Mail & General Trust cut more than 3,000 staff in the past four years
Jeremy Vine on the future of print journalism:
“It’s very, very sad. My apologies to anyone who’s in it and still thinks it’s a living profession. It isn’t.”
Even journalism veterans have a negative outlook on the future:
Newspapers: £22,500Television: £45,000Radio: £35,000Online: £35,000Magazines: £27,500
- The survey found that the average salary for journalists aged under 24 was £17,500.
- Around 83 per cent of new entrants into journalism did some form of work experience before getting a job. Of these placements, 92 per cent were unpaid and the average trainee had done seven weeks of work experience in total. Some, the survey said, had done as much as a year of unpaid work.
- Only 3 % of journalists surveyed do not enjoy their job compared with 6 % in 2002.
NCTJ Survey results:
- The journalists' average week is 39.4 hours long compared to the UK average of 33.1 and 82 per cent said they think this is “reasonable”.
- According to the survey, 63 per cent of journalists (up from 58 per cent in 2002) hold a journalism qualification – 73 per cent of those had an NCTJ-recognised qualification.
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