Two of this week’s Pulitzer Prize winners left their careers in journalism for public relations, with one leaving because he was struggling to make ends meet on a reporter’s salary and the other leaving for a job more conducive to starting a family. Jim Tankersley investigates the job-market trend. In 2014, 1 out of every 5 reporting jobs was in Washington, D.C., New York City or Los Angeles; in 2004, that number was 1 out of every 8. For journalists in any other part of the country, job options are dwindling, and even for those with jobs, compensation likely isn’t keeping up with inflation. However, the public relations industry is growing, and it’s growing in areas outside of Washington, New York and L.A. In the rest of the country, there was a 13 percent increase in public relations jobs in the last decade, or 20,000 new jobs.
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