Newspaper Journalists – Reporters Salary – Average Pay Rates

Newspaper Journalists are also known as reporters, writing news articles for newspapers for both local and national papers.

How much salary can I earn for Journalist jobs in the UK? What are the average pay rates for reporter jobs?

Your job is to invastigate stories as soon as you hear about it. Make sure you to have enough contacts and build more every other day to catch the latest stories and publish them on the newspaper.

You are also responsible to make interviews and record them to edit and publish them later on.

Reporters (Journalists) must be flexible about their working times as this not a 9 to 5 job.

Here are the average salary – pay rates for Reporters, Journalists in the UK:

– New starters(trainees can earn about £15k a year on local papers.
– If you have experience journalist then your earning can be between £15,000 to £40,000 per year.
– Senior journalists and newspaper editors can earn up to £100k every year.

The salary figures are only estimates and cannot be used for salary negotiations.

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