Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication Course Jobs, Careers, Companies, Salary trend and Packages 2025-2026

A Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication, opens up career possibilities in media and journalism organizations. It is an applied course which makes it possible to seek employment in various media outlets in roles varying from reporting to managing.

The Top Recruiters that hire professionals of PG Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication are:

Times of India Group
Dainik Bhaskar Group
HT Media
Bennett Coleman and Company
Zee Entertainment Enterprises
Hindustan Times
India Today Group
Reliance Big Entertainment

This course provides job opportunities in the following profiles. The lists followas:

Designation	Description
Journalists	A Journalist researches the reliability of news, gathers them, interviewes people and then makes a note of news and writes content for publication.
Reporter	A Reporter is responsible for reporting news to news channels or news paper agencies.
Correspondent	A correspondent mostly works for news channels and is responsible for channeling live coverage of events of international, national or local significance.
Public Relation Officer	Public Relation Officers plan, develop PR strategies and work on Press releases and research.
Editor	An editor is responsible for the content and quality of articles which go into publishing and ensures that stories are engaging and informative.
Content Developer	Content Developer is responsible for writing engaging and fact driven content for web pages.
Proofreader	A Proof reader scrutinize all documents and spots errors if any, improves them and ensures error free copy of the text.

PGD in Journalism and Mass Communication: Salary Trends

Once you finish this course, youcan seek employment in the media, entertainment. internet, advertising, PR industry where the entry level annual salary ranges from 1.5 Lakhs INR to 3.4 Lakhs INR and the median annual salary ranges from 2.0 Lakhs INR to 10.5 Lakhs INR and the maximum annual salary ranges from 3.8 Lakhs INR to 24 Lakhs per year respective of the profile.

The current salary trends for various job profiles in media, entertainment, Internet industry and its aligned field are given below:

salary graph for PGDJMC