Freelance Business Journalists Doing Much Better

Last year we covered a survey of freelance business journalists that seemed to say that most were making only $30,000 a year, ironic for a group of people who cover, y’know, business.

At the time we noted that the survey was bound to have a high margin of error with only 67 responses.

That turns out to have been true, for the most part. A new survey conducted by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism has found that business reporters make an average of $55,714, and freelancers make more than newspaper reporters.

Fewer business journalists reported a drop in pay than when the same question was asked a year ago, and many said that their newsrooms were actually hiring.

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