Headline risk
18%
Moderate RiskNews analysts, reporters, and journalists
United States AI Work Index tracks this occupation on the shared structural baseline and then layers on local demand resilience, wages, and confidence.
Why This Score
Share of job tasks that overlap with current AI capabilities
Median annual wage
Projected employment change over 10 years
Typical preparation needed for this occupation
Occupation profile
Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.
Task evidence
100% weighted task match · 14% effective coverage
Scores combine AI task overlap, human advantages, and local demand. How it works
United States Now
Median Wage
USD 60,280
Employment 2024
49.3K
Projected Change (2024–34)
-3.9%
Openings (2024–34)
4.1K
Wage distribution
Demand outlook
Employment of news analysts, reporters, and journalists is projected to grow 4 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Role Profile
Tasks
- 1. Receive assignments or evaluate leads or tips to develop story ideas. AI use: 0%
- 2. Analyze and interpret news and information received from various sources to broadcast the information. AI use: 97%
- 3. Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information. AI use: 0%
- 4. Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story. AI use: 0%
- 5. Examine news items of local, national, and international significance to determine topics to address, or obtain assignments from editorial staff members. AI use: 0%
- 6. Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information. AI use: 0%
Technologies
Requirements
Work context
Worker profile
Median age 41.4 · 86K employed
Under 25: 9% · 25–54: 63% · 55+: 29%
Related
Source coverage
11/11 source families · O*NET 30.2 / OEWS 2024 / ORS 2025 / OOH 2025-08-28 / Projections 2024-34 / CPS 2025 / Anthropic task penetration
Mapping quality
crosswalk_exact · employment series present
Narrative & sources
News analysts, reporters, and journalists keep the public updated about current events and noteworthy information.
Most news analysts, reporters, and journalists work for newspaper, website, or magazine publishers or in television or radio broadcasting. Others are self-employed. Most work full time, and their schedules vary.
News analysts, reporters, and journalists typically need a bachelor’s degree to enter the occupation. Internship or work experience on a college newspaper, radio station, or television station also may be helpful.
The median annual wage for news analysts, reporters, and journalists was $60,280 in May 2024.
Employment of news analysts, reporters, and journalists is projected to grow 4 percent from 2024 to 2034, decline.
Published limitations
This page shows the local country layer, not realised individual job outcomes. The global structural baseline is shared across countries; only the local demand and wage layer changes here.
Built from O*NET occupation descriptions, task statements, technology skills, work context, Job Zones, Anthropic task penetration, BLS OEWS wages, BLS projection tables, BLS ORS requirements, BLS OOH narrative content, BLS skills data, and BLS CPS occupation age tables.