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Well-paid careers in the media

I've always been interested in the media and was just wondering...

What are the best-paid jobs in it? I know money isn't everything but it is the starting point for many I think!

Also what kind of jobs can you get with a English skewed degrees that will give you a nice kinda life?:smile:
Reuters, BBC, The Times - all of the big names in the media will pay well.

Graduates will obviously get the most pay, though. :smile:
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Reuters, BBC, The Times - all of the big names in the media will pay well.

Graduates will obviously get the most pay, though. :smile:


Not entirely true I'm afraid. OP, it depends what you mean by "pay well". Big names like the BBC and The Times will certainly pay better than their regional and local counterparts, but starting salaries for print/broadcast journalists are always notoriously low. On top of this, it's rare to go straight into these "big names" without experience on regional media first.

To an extent, graduates earn more, but I know one 22-year-old working on a newspaper who has a degree and an MA, and is on exactly the same salary as a 19-year-old colleague who did a journalism qualification straight from school and has worked his way up as a trainee. So you won't necessarily see a return on your degree straight away.

OP, careers in PR and advertising pay slightly better than journalism, and are more likely to have graduate recruitment schemes which recognise and reward your degree. However, most media careers just aren't "well paid" (compared to, say, law, banking, accountancy and other graduate careers) until you get quite far up the ladder. Unless you're lucky, it's still generally an industry where you have to work your way up. And working in the media almost always involves long and sometimes antisocial hours, which might not fit in with your "nice kinda life".

Of course, if you end up as a fantastic columnist/presenter/company owner, the sky's the limit :smile:

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