Survey Results Released in Kansas City, August 2003
Graduates of university journalism and mass communication programs around the country in 2002 had difficulty finding jobs in the field, much as graduates did a year earlier. The job market, quite strong as recently as 2000, remained very weak throughout the early months of 2003.
Salaries also stagnated, and job benefits remained stable only because graduates were paying for bigger portions of them on their own.
These are some of the key findings of the Annual Surveys of Journalism & Mass Communication Graduates, released August 1 at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communications in Kansas City.
The Annual Surveys of Journalism & Mass Communication are conducted in the James M. Cox Jr. Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research, a unit of the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia.
In addition to the report of the graduate survey, Cox Center researchers released preliminary findings of the Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments, which showed an increase in enrollments in journalism programs around the country in the autumn of 2002.
Other reports released by the Cox Center researchers focused on the characteristics of journalism and mass communication faculty members and of students graduating from doctoral programs in the broad field of communication.