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Journalists in China

The typical journalist in China is male or female, in his or her early-thirties and holds a university degree in fields of journalism or communication. Of the 646 interviewed journalists who have answered the question of gender, 326 were women, making a proportion of 50.5 percent of the overall sample. On average, Chinese journalists were 33.90 years old (s=7.17); 53.4 percent of the journalists were younger than 34 years. Journalists tend to be well educated: 77.2 percent of the respondents held a college or bachelor degree, 21.9 percent held degree from a graduate program, and 0.5 percent of the journalists obtained a doctoral degree. Of those respondents who held a university degree, a majority (76.5%) had specialized in communication or journalism. Across the whole sample of Chinese journalists, 45.2 percent had specialized in journalism, 23.7 percent had studied in other communication field, and 7.6 percent had specialized in both journalism and another communication field.