Ask nearly 12,000 journalists for their view of their work, and what would you find? The Pew Research Center did just that in a major project published Tuesday and found an arresting paradox.
On the one hand, the journalists were well aware of a host of problems in how they are perceived by their target audience — issues of trust, polarization, challenges to freedom of the press, the difficulty of balance in stories, social media disruption and unfinished business on a diversity agenda.
And yet … by a very big margin, they indicate high job satisfaction. Specifically, 70% said that they were very or somewhat satisfied with their job. 77% said that they would pursue a career in journalism again.
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