How Much Do You Think Journalists Earn?

That depends on the outlet you are writing for. There are different levels of commitment for newspapers depending on size and size of the area. The same is true for magazines. I'm sure that things have changed a lot since your dad started in the business. I wouldn't totally rule it out if I were you and you were interested in writing as a career.

i think journalist don't earn much except for the ones who are on tv. tv pays real good i think. i don't know about the national spread but if you're just writing for local mag or newspaper i don't think you're gonna earn much. well, i'm not really the right person to tell you this coz i don't have an experience in it but i took up journalism in college but didn't finish it. you dad's right. it's hard to make a comfortable living out of writing but when you do it for the love of it i think it's all gonna be worth it. just make sure you have another resource to draw money from when things get a little tight.

Our professor in newspaper management said that it is not that much. The salary of a call center agent is way more better than a journalist. He also stated that if ever there are people who become rich in journalism, think again. HAHA But, it also depends on the person. If writing is really his/her passion and that he/she thinks that doing a homework everyday would make him/her happy then let it be.:)

Not much. My degree is in that field and when I realized that most of the folks that I knew only made somewhere in the low to mid $20's and a few less than that... It ended up deterring me from pursuing this field. Now if you are someone like Dan Rather...that's different. But it's a long hard road to get to that point.