What Is the Average Salary for a Sports Journalist?
“So, what’s the salary for a sports journalist? Well, for talking about a conventional sports journalist who works, for example, for a newspaper, the answer is not all that great, and that shouldn’t too much of a surprise. Salaries aren’t all that great, starting salaries at least, for, for reporters of any newspaper. However, I, I think there are some benefits still to being a sports journalist. Number one, it’s a whole lot of fun if you’re a sports fan, and also you have a sports program, the sports departments at newspapers tend to be fairly well funded operations, simply because the audience for sports news is so large and so engaged that attracts a lot of advertising, perhaps more so than the news side of the operation, so if you’ve got to be anywhere in the newsroom, that’s a fairly safe place to be, perhaps, in terms of job security and, and reimbursement. So, that’s the typical salary, perhaps, for a sports journalist. Now, again here it, a lot depends on what organization you
