At the top are the military, then firefighters, airplane pilots, event organizers and business managers. But in the top ten compiled by Forbes on the most stressful professions of 2014, the journalist also appears in eighth place, ahead of policemen and taxi drivers.
Not only because, among the ten mentioned, that of the "newspaper reporter" is the second worst paid profession (36 dollars a year on average in the US, probably even less in Italy), but above all because "in times of austerity the pressure is increasing producing multimedia content, and competing with the lightning-fast timeliness of social media and the plethora of blogs is increasingly complicated”.
Far from caste, therefore, the journalist in times of crisis is increasingly under tension. "Moreover, in many cases, and increasingly out of necessity, the reporter finds himself reporting wars or high-risk events, thus running the same risks as soldiers and policemen, but without being adequately remunerated". In fact, in America the average salary of the policeman is 55 dollars a year and that of an army general is almost 200 dollars. But let the journalists console themselves: a simple soldier earns only 29 dollars a year, even in the USA.
