Newspaper

Maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise, but a recent study says being a reporter at a newspaper is the worst job of 2013, according to the CareerCast.com Jobs Related Report.

“Ever-shrinking newsrooms, dwindling budgets and competition from Internet businesses have created very difficult conditions for newspaper reporters, which has been ranked as this year’s worst job, according to CareerCast.com,” as reported by Editor & Publisher.

According to the report, the median salary for a reporter is $36,000 and the growth rate is projected to be -6%.

What used to be a prestigious job has changed considerably over the years involving longer hours and virtually no job security.

The job that has lost its luster dramatically over the past five years is expected to plummet even further by 2020.

Blogger Paul Gillin says, “the print model is not sustainable. It will probably be gone within the next 10 years.”

E & P reports a steady decline in the number of daily newspapers since 1985, when there were 1,730 in circulation. The industry held steady near 1,450 in the mid-2000s, but closures in the latter half of the decade left the nation with a low of 1,382 dailies.

The second-worst job, according to the study? Being a lumberjack.