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Earlier this week, American journalists put together and circulated a spreadsheet of media salaries in Google Sheets. This kind of thing is becoming a lot more common: see previous Google Sheets on general salaries from Ask A Manager and this one on software salaries.
Looking through the list, I was struck by just how little journalists make, compared t…