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10 Most Stressful Jobs of 2011 - 4: Photojournalist

  • 4. Photojournalist

    Stress Rank: 196
    Stress Score: 47.09
    Hiring Outlook Rank: 113 out of 200
    Hours Per Day: Varies
    Income: $40,209.00

    Photojournalists capture their stories through the lens of a camera. They are often on the frontlines of dangerous situations in order to get the story. Danger in the field, deadlines and technological glitches are factors why their jobs can be considered stressful.

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..............and

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 04/24/2011 - 01:04.

we got to put up with criminals and cops too .............

pay

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 15:06.

they are treated badly in the newsroom and by the management. they are on call 24/7, lunch is always fast food. and they have to deal with brain dead assignment editors, reporters and producers along with unsafe live trucks and vehicles. They are always promised over time to compensate their initial low salary. but then they receive the memo from corporate office that over time is no longer allowed.
News photojournalist is a dead end job. More and more news corporations will cut them out of their newsroom and bring in fresh out of college one-man-bands.

what the hell

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 17:08.

you put software engineer and computer programming on least stressful but you say deadlines and technology glitches are the reason this is stressful

duh

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 22:23.

They are when you're in the middle of a shootout and you're live on the air.

Considering the glitches are

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 04/22/2011 - 22:22.

Considering the glitches are due to engineers being neglectful,which is the MAIN reason for most of the problems in the first place. and let's not forget all the bs to deal with when it comes to news directors and producers wanting this and that. AND who gets all the blame when something goes wrong??? The photojournalist.

Computer programming stressful? Enjoy your a/c and tea, Nancy boy.

We shoot the stories, we edit the stories, we set up the live shots, we do 95% of the work, and we make it happen.
every day.

Photojournalist?

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 04/23/2011 - 06:03.

It says "photojournalist" but the photo shows a guy with a television camera on a tripod. It cracks me up that television camera operators call themselves photojournalists. They're not taking photos and they're certainly not journalists. They work their asses off, I agree, because they answer to a slew of people all day. An old school "photojournalist" shoots alone, does his or her own writing/reporting, editing, logistics, transportation, and calls a "reporter", who sits at a desk in an office, to tell them what's really go on in the world. Rather than parking their camera in front of the "talent", a photojournalist is actually in the action. A television cameraman that does all that is rare and worthy of the title photojournalist.

Ignorance is a state of being uninformed.

Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/01/2011 - 19:11.

I'm a Photojournalist - I shoot video/stills, edit, interview, write, run live trucks and post to web/social media. On occasion I voice packages and do breaking news live shots - on camera.

Do I not shoot image stills? Do I not capture images or "photos" at 30 frames a second in a journalistic fashion? Do I not interview and write stories? Do I not edit the video and transmit it over the airwaves?

Wait a second... I do all of that. Boom.

There is a way to be

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 04/26/2011 - 18:10.

There is a way to be considered a journalist without appearing on-camera. And instead of wasting time on getting caught in the correct terminology for the profession, maybe you should take into consideration they are called that bc they, like reporters, gather information, ask questions, conduct interviews--all the things that make a journalist a journalist. Excluding the fact that most don't write stories, they still 95% do of the work. We also tell stories through Nat packages, so I wouldn't exclude the term "journalist" bc they simply aren't in front of the camera.

And you're really wasting time wondering why they are called photojournalist and don't take photos?? Seriously? Fine, call them videojournalists. Does that make any difference to your lacking logic?

Maybe you should learn more about the profession before you simply write it off as "camera operator".

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