Industries employing the most reporters and journalists U.S. 2023

The industry with the highest level of employment of news analysts, reporters, and journalists in the United States is that of newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers, with 17,310 employed persons (excluding those who were self-employed) as of May 2023. Radio and TV broadcast stations employed over 10.6 thousand such workers as of that time, whereas the number of reporters and journalists working in the motion picture and video industry stood at under 1,500.