Designing, producing, exhibiting, performing, writing, and publishing multimedia content including visual and performing arts and design, journalism and entertainment services.

Analyze, interpret, and broadcast news received from various sources.

News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists

Broadcast News Analysts

Set up, operate, and maintain the electronic equipment used to acquire, edit, and transmit audio and video for radio or television programs. Control and adjust incoming and outgoing broadcast signals to regulate sound volume, signal strength, and signal clarity. Operate satellite, microwave, or other transmitter equipment to broadcast radio or television programs.

Broadcast Technicians

Operate television, video, or film camera to record images or scenes for television, video, or film productions.

Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Film

Camera Operators, Television, Video, and Motion Picture

Manage the day-to-day operations and oversee the production and profitability of publications such as newspapers, magazines, or journals.

Editors

Chief Editors

Originate and prepare written material, such as scripts, stories, advertisements, and other material.

Writers and Authors

Copy Writers

Write critical reviews of literary, musical, or artistic works and performances for broadcast and publication. Form critical opinions based on personal knowledge, judgment, and experience.

Poets, Lyricists and Creative Writers

Critics

Plan, coordinate, revise, or edit written material. May review proposals and drafts for possible publication.

Create, develop, and present content for the fashion department of a magazine, website, newspaper, or television program.

Fashion Editors

Edit moving images on film, video, or other media. May work with a producer or director to organize images for final production. May edit or synchronize soundtracks with images.

Film and Video Editors

Write, compile, and edit dictionaries for both print and online publication. Determine which new words are common use and should be included in the glossary.

Technical Writers

Lexicographers

Set up, maintain, and dismantle light fixtures, lighting control devices, and the associated lighting electrical and rigging equipment used for photography, television, film, video, and live productions. May focus or operate light fixtures, or attach color filters or other lighting accessories.

Lighting Technicians

Photograph people, landscapes, merchandise, or other subjects. May use lighting equipment to enhance a subject's appearance. May use editing software to produce finished images and prints. Includes commercial and industrial photographers, scientific photographers, and photojournalists.

Photographers

Create original written works, such as scripts, essays, prose, poetry or song lyrics, for publication or performance.

Poets, Lyricists, and Creative Writers

Make announcements over public address system at sporting or other public events. May act as master of ceremonies or disc jockey at weddings, parties, clubs, or other gathering places.

Broadcast Announcers and Radio Disc Jockeys

Public Address System and Other Announcers

Speak or read from scripted materials, such as news reports or commercial messages, on radio, television, or other communications media. May play and queue music, announce artist or title of performance, identify station, or interview guests.

Radio and Television Announcers

Receive and transmit communications using radiotelephone equipment in accordance with government regulations. May repair equipment.

Communications Equipment Operators, All Other

Radio Operators

Collect and analyze facts about newsworthy events by interview, investigation, or observation. Report and write stories for newspaper, news magazine, radio, or television.

Reporters and Correspondents

Assemble and operate equipment to record, synchronize, mix, edit, or reproduce sound, including music, voices, or sound effects, for theater, video, film, television, podcasts, sporting events, and other productions.

Sound Engineering Technicians

Write technical materials, such as equipment manuals, appendices, or operating and maintenance instructions. May assist in layout work.

Journalism and Broadcasting

Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, or film productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.

Actors

Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, radio, or motion picture productions.

Talent Directors

Casting Agents

Create new dance routines. Rehearse performance of routines. May direct and stage presentations.

Choreographers

Select, fit, and take care of costumes for cast members, and aid entertainers. May assist with multiple costume changes during performances.

Costume Attendants

Perform dances. May perform on stage, for broadcasting, or for video recording.

Dancers

Play video games professionally, competing in tournaments and in front of spectators.

Entertainers and Performers, Sports and Related Workers, All Other

E-sports Players

Source and secure the financing for a film production and ensure there is enough money to complete the project. Oversee the work of the producer on behalf of the studio, the financiers, or the distributors. Ensure the production is completed on time, within budget, and to agreed artistic and technical standards.

Producers and Directors

Executive Producers

Coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, engineering, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.

Media Technical Directors/Managers

Media Production Managers

Music Directors and Composers

Music Composers and Arrangers

Direct and conduct instrumental or vocal performances by musical groups, such as orchestras or choirs.

Music Directors

Play one or more musical instruments in recital, in accompaniment, or as members of an orchestra, band, or other musical group.

Musicians and Singers

Musicians, Instrumental

Interpret script, conduct rehearsals, and direct activities of cast and technical crew for stage, motion pictures, television, or radio programs.

Performing Arts Directors

Plan and coordinate various aspects of radio, television, stage, or motion picture production, such as selecting script, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing.

Producers

Purchase, acquire, manufacture, place, and oversee any props needed for a film, television, or theatrical production.

Media and Communication Workers, All Other

Prop Coordinators

Develop and oversee publishing rights for books and related products. May include arranging foreign rights, the sale of rights to book clubs, or for reprint paperbacks, serials and extracts, audio and electronic formats, and translations.

Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes

Publishing Rights Managers

Sing songs on stage, radio, television, or motion pictures.

Singers

Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers. May handle contract negotiation and other business matters for clients.

Talent Agents

Apply makeup to performers to reflect period, setting, and situation of their role.

Makeup Artists, Theatrical and Performance

Theatrical and Performance Makeup Artists

Performing Arts

Format typescript and graphic elements using computer software to produce publication-ready material.

Desktop Publishers

Format and proof text and images submitted by designers and clients into finished pages that can be printed. Includes digital and photo typesetting. May produce printing plates.

Prepress Technicians and Workers

Bind books and other publications or finish printed products by hand or machine. May set up binding and finishing machines.

Print Binding and Finishing Workers

Set up and operate digital, letterpress, lithographic, flexographic, gravure, or other printing machines. Includes short-run offset printing presses.

Printing Press Operators

Read transcript or proof type setup to detect and mark for correction any grammatical, typographical, or compositional errors. Includes proofreaders of Braille.

Proofreaders and Copy Markers

Printing Technology

Install, set up, rearrange, or remove switching, distribution, routing, and dialing equipment used in central offices or headends. Service or repair telephone, cable television, Internet, and other communications equipment on customers' property. May install communications equipment or communications wiring in buildings.

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers, Except Line Installers

Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers

Install and repair telecommunications cable, including fiber optics.

Telecommunications Line Installers and Repairers

Telecommunications

Design three-dimensional models of objects, virtual environments, layouts, characters, and virtual animated agents.

Special Effects Artists and Animators

3D Modelers

Formulate design concepts and presentation approaches for visual productions and media, such as print, broadcasting, video, and film. Direct workers engaged in artwork or layout design.

Art Directors

Use computer programs to make images come to life on screen by adding emotions, mood, behaviors, movements, personalities, and attitudes to character objects.

Character Animators

Use computer programs to form skeletons of a person, creature, or moving object by creating a series of bones that deform and animate specific parts of the character.

Character Riggers

Design and develop manufactured products, such as cars, home appliances, and children's toys. Combine artistic talent with research on product use, marketing, and materials to create the most functional and appealing product design.

Commercial and Industrial Designers

Write digital content such as news stories, blogs, and product descriptions. Audit existing content and ensure that corporate content strategy is properly implemented.

Content Producers

Create or reproduce handmade objects for sale and exhibition using a variety of techniques, such as welding, weaving, pottery, and needlecraft.

Craft Artists

Design clothing and accessories. Create original designs or adapt fashion trends.

Fashion Designers

Create original artwork using any of a wide variety of media and techniques.

Fine Artists, Including Painters, Sculptors, and Illustrators

Fine Artists

Design, cut, and arrange live, dried, or artificial flowers and foliage.

Floral Designers

Design or create graphics to meet specific commercial or promotional needs, such as packaging, displays, or logos. May use a variety of mediums to achieve artistic or decorative effects.

Graphic Designers

Create special effects or animations using film, video, computers, or other electronic tools and media for use in products, such as computer games, movies, music videos, and commercials.

Multimedia Artists and Animators

Conceptualize and sketch designs of product packaging and labels, considering factors such as convenience in handling and storing, distinctiveness for identification by consumer, and simplicity to minimize production costs.

Packaging Designers

Design special exhibits and sets for film, video, television, and theater productions. May study scripts, confer with directors, and conduct research to determine appropriate architectural styles.

Set and Exhibit Designers

Create animations by physically manipulating puppets or clay models in small increments between individually photographed frames for them to appear to exhibit independent motion when the series of frames is played back.

Stop Motion Animators

Coordinate graphics on live television, and decide which content should be displayed on-air. May edit grammar or spelling in displayed graphic elements or evaluate factual correctness.

TV Graphics Coordinators

Visual Arts

The arts contribute more than $800 million a year to U.S. economic output, according to a 2019 report from the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Large economic impact

Almost 3 million people work in arts, A/V technology and communications fields in the U.S.

Employment numbers

Freelance work is common in many of these careers. Some jobs require frequent travel and have irregular work hours.

Freelance opportunities

As demand for printed media trends downward, news organizations focus more on developing web-based content like podcasts, video, and social media.