Journalists' Pay Not Keeping Up with...Anything, Really

Get ready to feel a little more sympathy for your journalist contacts.

We all know that full-time editorializing has never paid as well as it should unless your name happens to be E.L. James, but a new report in the American Journalism Review clarifies just how true that is.

The fact that an American reporter’s mean salary rose 10.7% “from $40,090…to $44,360” in the decade between 2003 and 2013 is already a little depressing, but the fact that the mean salary for all occupations rose at nearly three times that rate (from $36,210 to $46,440) is more upsetting.

Unfortunately,