The country's reporters have mixed sentiments toward their job, an online survey released by a job bank yesterday revealed.
The survey was conducted by the 1111 Job Bank on Aug. 23 to Aug. 30 among media reporters on whether or not they are happy in their work, to coincide with the celebration of Sept. 1 Reporters' Day.
The poll results show that 22.76 percent of the respondents were unhappy with their jobs, while 31.41 percent said they enjoy their work. Another 45.83 percent of the surveyed reporters were ambivalent.
Analyzing the results, the job bank found that reporters who said they were cheerful were mostly those who work for magazines. They accounted for 44.45 percent of surveyed happy reporters.
Those who said they were unhappy and stressed were mostly television reporters, accounting for 40.62 percent of all the unhappy reporters surveyed, according to the poll.
Asked what kind of events they dislike covering, 60.58 percent of the respondents answered "controversial political events," followed by "social events" with 58.33 percent.
Lifestyle and travel are the two subjects that reporters look forward most to covering, attracting 58.01 percent and 51.6 percent of the polled reporters respectively.
Asked whether or not they wanted to change careers, 49.04 percent said they wanted out of journalism, while 50.96 percent said they wanted to remain in the business.
According to the job bank's statistics, jobseekers who wanted to work as reporters had only 0.67 job opportunities on average last year, a ratio that dropped to 0.55 this year.
A total of 312 valid questionnaires were collected for the online survey.
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