Media, journalism and publishing jobs cover reporting, editing, audio and video production, and the work of getting books, journals and magazines into print and online. Employers range from national broadcasters and daily newspapers to local weeklies, digital outlets, book and academic publishers, and the editorial teams of international organizations. Contracts run from freelance shifts and summer reporting jobs to fixed-term UN posts and permanent staff roles.
What sets the field apart is that most of the work depends on deep command of one language and local knowledge, so moving abroad usually means working in a language you already write at a professional level. The industry is also contracting in many markets while audiences move to social video, creators and AI tools. Openings still exist, but many are in local news, audio, video and specialist publishing rather than general reporting at large outlets.
This guide covers the boards that list media, journalism and publishing jobs in over a dozen countries, the skills employers ask for, official pay data and online communities. Board counts were checked on 7 November 2026. For current vacancies, see our page of media and journalism open positions, which links each ad directly.
How the news industry is changing
Press Gazette’s tracker counted at least 3,434 journalism job cuts in the UK and US in 2025, after at least 3,875 in 2024 and about 6,000 in 2023. Its rolling 2026 list includes the BBC’s plan to cut 1,800 to 2,000 jobs, more than 300 newsroom journalists at the Washington Post and around 100 jobs at the Telegraph, as shown on Press Gazette’s 2026 job cuts tracker. The tracker covers the UK and US, so it says little about hiring elsewhere.
Audience habits explain part of the pressure. The Reuters Institute’s Digital News Report 2026, based on 97,520 respondents in 48 markets, found that social media and video networks had overtaken news websites and apps as the most used way to get online news, at 54% against 51%. Trust in news fell to 37%, the lowest level since the survey began measuring it in 2015, and 10% of respondents used AI chatbots for news each week.
Only 17% paid for online news across the 20 richer countries the report tracks for payment, essentially unchanged from 2025. The full figures are in the Digital News Report executive summary. For job seekers, this explains why ads increasingly ask for video, audio, social media and data skills alongside reporting.
Where media and publishing jobs are advertised
Most media hiring abroad runs through national boards and employers’ own pages. The counts below are keyword searches on 7 November 2026, and several boards match loosely, so filter by job title.
Specialist journalism boards
In the United States, JournalismJobs.com lists newspaper, digital, broadcast, magazine and nonprofit roles, almost all of them US-based. The International Journalists’ Network (IJNet), run by the International Center for Journalists, publishes news and opportunities for journalists in eight languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian and Spanish.
Industry press often lists jobs too, but much of it is national. When targeting a country, check the websites of its main newspaper groups and public broadcasters directly, since many advertise only on their own pages or national boards.
National job boards
Norway’s public employment portal, arbeidsplassen.nav.no, returned 21 results for journalist, including permanent and temporary reporting jobs at regional papers and summer replacement programs at national titles. In Switzerland, a journalist search on jobs.ch returned 23 offers, among them reporting, radio, podcast and internship roles at Swiss media groups. Germany’s Make it in Germany portal returned 14 jobs for Redakteur, mostly online and technical editing.
Canada’s Job Bank returned only four journalist postings, all at local or regional outlets, each with stated pay. In Colombia, elempleo returned seven results for periodista, several of them communications roles rather than reporting. South Africa’s PNet returned 56 for journalist, mostly marketing and communications jobs, while its editor search surfaced publishing, video editing and content production roles.
Some boards turned up little: Estonia’s CV.ee returned no results for editor, and general searches on Japanese and Kenyan boards surfaced no reporting roles when we checked. In those markets, media hiring tends to run through employers’ own pages and personal networks.
International organizations
UN agencies and other international bodies hire editors, writers, public information officers and multimedia producers. A search for editor on Impactpool’s editor listings returned roles at the UN climate secretariat, UNICEF, the International Rescue Committee and the UN’s global communications department. Many international editing posts require excellent English plus another UN language, and editors on documents teams often edit technical and official texts rather than news.
Impactpool is an aggregator, so confirm each deadline on the organization’s own system. National officer and general service posts are usually open only to people already allowed to work in the duty-station country, which our guide to UN and NGO jobs explains.
Publishing jobs
Book, academic and educational publishing is a smaller market, and roles often appear on general boards rather than specialist ones. In our checks, a scholarly publisher in Cape Town was hiring a production editor through a recruitment agency on PNet, and Norway’s largest publisher was advertising a two-year educational content role on arbeidsplassen. Germany’s portal also carried freelance and student editing work for online magazines.
Publishing ads tend to ask for precise written language, familiarity with production formats such as XML and ePUB, and sometimes subject expertise, for example in mathematics for educational publishing. Editing tests are common, and applicants are often asked for writing or editing samples with their CV.
Skills and portfolios employers ask for
Ads for reporting jobs usually ask for a journalism degree or equivalent experience, strong news judgment and fluent command of the publication’s language. Norwegian ads we checked required Norwegian, and Aftenposten’s summer reporters must pass a language test. Swiss ads asked for fluent German, except for an editing and English translation role that asked for native English and C1 German.
Multimedia skills now appear in most ads. Podcast and video roles ask for audio and video editing software skills, and several ads, including a South African video editing role and a Swiss editorial post, mention AI tools or AI-supported workflows. Local reporting jobs in Canada and Norway also ask for a driver’s license or a reliable vehicle. A portfolio of published clips, audio or video is expected for almost every role.
What media and publishing jobs pay
Official pay data is limited to a few countries and uses broad groups that mix journalists with copywriters and other writers. The table separates official statistics from ad figures, which are single vacancies and not averages. Figures are in local currency and are not converted.
| Country | Role or group | Pay | Type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | Journalists and other writers | A$1,722 a week (median, full time) | Official | Jobs and Skills Australia |
| Canada | Journalists (NOC 51113) | C$36.92 an hour (median) | Official | Job Bank wage data |
| Canada | General assignment reporter, Prince George | C$42,500 to 54,200 a year | Ad | Job Bank |
| Canada | Journalist, Amos, Quebec | C$24 an hour | Ad | Job Bank |
| South Africa | Social video editor, remote | R27,000 to 34,000 a month | Ad | PNet |
| Nigeria | Content creator and community manager, Lagos | NGN 250,000 to 400,000 a month | Ad | Jobberman |
| International | UN editor, P-3, Bonn | US$71,335 net a year plus post adjustment | Ad | Impactpool |
| United States | Reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts | $62,200 a year (median, May 2025) | Official | US Bureau of Labor Statistics |
| United States | Editors | $77,920 a year (median, May 2025) | Official | US Bureau of Labor Statistics |
The Australian figure covers full-time employees in a group that includes copywriters and technical writers, from an ABS survey in May 2025. The Canadian median is national and covers all journalists; Job Bank’s regional medians range higher in Toronto and Ottawa.
Most Swiss, Norwegian and German ads we checked did not state pay, which is common for media roles in those countries. In some countries collective agreements set newsroom pay, and journalists’ unions may publish the scales, so check before negotiating.
Communities for journalists and publishing professionals
Reddit’s r/Journalism, a forum on the industry from the classroom to the newsroom, has over 120,000 members according to third-party subreddit trackers. Its threads cover job hunting, freelancing and press freedom. Smaller subreddits include r/journalismjobs, where outlets and members post openings, and r/publishing, which covers editorial, marketing, publicity and production work in the book trade.
LinkedIn and professional associations matter more for hiring than forums. National journalists’ unions and associations often run job boards, training and freelance rate guides, and many publishers and newsrooms post openings first on their own social channels. Instagram, YouTube and podcast platforms double as portfolios for audio, video and visual journalists.
What to watch
The US BLS projects employment of reporters, correspondents and broadcast news analysts to fall 6% from 2025 to 2035, with about 3,400 openings a year, all from replacing workers who leave. Editors are projected to decline 1%, with about 7,900 openings a year. Those are US figures, but they match the direction of the cuts tracked in the UK and the audience trends the Reuters Institute reports across 48 markets.
Hiring has not stopped: regional papers, public broadcasters, audio and video teams, and specialist publishers were all advertising when we checked. Candidates with a strong portfolio in one language, multimedia skills and a specialist subject such as climate, finance or education will find the widest range of openings, while many entry routes run through internships, summer programs and fixed-term contracts.