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Speaking of salaries, some experts say the age of the superstar news anchor is coming to an end.
Mendes Napoli, founder and president of a talent agency for the broadcast industry, spoke with TVNewsCheck about news pay.
“For the the general reporters,” he says, “salaries have not really come down, although a lot of them have been frozen. The new jobs opening up seem to be in the same range they’ve always been. So if a station was paying a reporter $60,000 or $70,000 before, they tend to still be paying that.”
Out of the agency’s more than 400 clients, only 15 have taken a pay cut on the renewal of their contract, and those have been on the higher end of the pay scale, he says.
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