Report: Journalists Are Miserable, Liberal, Over-Educated, Under-Paid, Middle-Aged Men...Mostly

By: Derek Thompson | The Atlantic

Today, the term ink-stained wretches is exactly one-third accurate.

Journalists aren't quite so blotched from pens and printers, now that the newspaper die-out has wiped out 50 years of advertising gains in a decade. With cleaner shirts, less paper, and worse pay, we're more like carpal-tunnel wretches. We're older on average than we used to be, slightly more moral, and far more lugubrious about the future of our profession.

Here is the state of the American journalist, according to a survey from Indiana University.