The Pew Research Center's Alex T. Williams uses U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to show that the salary gap between news reporters and public relations professionals has widened over the past decade of shrinking newsroom budgets: "Journalists on average earn just 65% of what those in public relations earn. That is a greater income gap than in 2004 when journalists were paid 71 cents of every dollar earned by those in public relations ($43,830 versus $31,320)."
August 21, 2014
