Journalists Satisfaction of Remuneration in Cameroon

Abstract

The creeping decline in journalists’ pay and working conditions may undermine the reputation of the media industry. This paper seeks to assess journalists’ satisfaction of their remuneration in Cameroon.  The paper made use of a descriptive cross-sectional survey research design and data was collected with the use of questionnaires. 270 journalists were sampled purposively and conveniently from television stations, radio stations, newspaper organisations and online bloggers in the Southwest, Northwest, Centre, Far North and Littoral Regions of Cameroon. Findings revealed that journalists in the public media were more satisfied with their remuneration 21.7% followed by freelance journalists 17.6% with the least satisfied being journalist from the private media (14.5%). Journalists especially in the private media, through their unions, should lobby for better pay to enhance the goal of professionalism.