Where a broadcast news editor can go next

Table 1 · Within reach

• editor-in-chief 73% covered · difficulty 33.7
• magazine editor 69% covered · difficulty 34.2
• newspaper editor 65% covered · difficulty 42
• columnist 53% covered · difficulty 53.5

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

• photojournalist 52% covered · difficulty 57.8

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

A broadcast news editor needs 19 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

• create editorial board communication, collaboration and creativity
• check stories information skills
• work closely with news teams communication, collaboration and creativity
• digital journalism social sciences, journalism and information
• build contacts to maintain news flow communication, collaboration and creativity
• follow ethical code of conduct of journalists assisting and caring
• participate in editorial meetings communication, collaboration and creativity
• editorial standards social sciences, journalism and information
• press law business, administration and law
• follow the news information skills

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a broadcast news editor does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

• editor-in-chief 72% covered · difficulty 34
• newspaper editor 70% covered · difficulty 37.1
• journalist 64% covered · difficulty 42.5
• magazine editor 62% covered · difficulty 45.7
• picture editor 56% covered · difficulty 50.2
• news anchor 46% covered · difficulty 59.6

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Broadcast news editor is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a broadcast news editor’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.