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Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
9. Real reporters earn about $12 an hour.
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 10:17 PM
Aug 2012

The average pay for a journalist is between $25,000 and $30,000. That's why so many good reporters leave the profession. When they have children, they have to take their communications degrees and go into something that pays - like PR or marketing.

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