Career Explorer Arts, media and sport
Changing shape
News analysts, reporters, and journalists
Narrate or write news stories, reviews, or commentary for print, broadcast, or other communications media such as newspapers, magazines, radio, or television. May collect and analyze information through interview, investigation, or observation.
Among the careers AI is changing fastest: more resilient than 4% of the 831 careers we score. AI exposure is very high (the Bureau of Labor Statistics rates it very high), and US jobs are projected to change by -5.9% by 2035, expected to shrink. The work leans on creative vision.
AI can do many of the tasks, and hiring is expected to grow slower than average or to shrink. The job is likely to change, so build the human parts of it.
- Median pay (2025)
- $62,200
- Job growth to 2035
- -5.9%
- Openings a year
- 3,400
- People doing it (2025)
- 47,100
- Usual route in
- Bachelor's degree
Where people already use AI for this work
- Provide information or assistance to the public
- Gather information for news stories
- Develop news, entertainment, or artistic content
From Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025).
Work AI rarely helps with
- Direct organizational operations, activities, or procedures
- Operate audiovisual or related equipment
- Interview people to obtain information
What the work looks like
- Report news stories for publication or broadcast, describing the background and details of events.
- Gather information and develop perspectives about news subjects through research, interviews, observation, and experience.
- Research a story's background information to provide complete and accurate information.
- Arrange interviews with people who can provide information about a story.
- Establish and maintain relationships with individuals who are credible sources of information.
From O*NET 31.0, US Department of Labor.
Careers using similar strengths, with a stronger outlook
- Art directorsGrows with AI, Index 39, +4.2%
- Music directors and composersChanging shape, Index 28, +1.2%
- Designers, all otherChanging shape, Index 24, +1.2%
- EditorsChanging shape, Index 10, -1.1%
Also known as: Anchor, News Anchor, News Reporter, Reporter, Journalist, Multimedia Journalist, Staff Writer, TV News Anchor (Television News Anchor).
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Sources: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2025 to 2035; O*NET 31.0; Microsoft Research (2025); Anthropic Economic Index (2026); Eloundou and colleagues (Science, 2024); Felten, Raj and Seamans (2023). How we score. Updated 12 October 2026.