Print Journalist (ANZSCO 212413)

On the Short-term Skilled Occupation List and Core Skills Occupation List

From the official Home Affairs skilled occupation lists, as at 2026-08-12. Lists change at each government update — always confirm on the official page before acting.

Which lists is Print Journalist on?

STSOL — Short-term Skilled Occupation List. Occupations on the STSOL can access state-nominated and regional skilled visas (190/491), but not the Skilled Independent 189.

CSOL — Core Skills Occupation List. The employer-sponsorship list — occupations on the CSOL can be nominated for the Skills in Demand visa (subclass 482) and the Employer Nomination Scheme 186.

Visas this occupation can access

Being on a list makes the occupation nominatable for these visas — each visa still has its own requirements (points, age, English, a positive skills assessment, and for sponsored visas a willing employer or state).

Skills assessment

A positive skills assessment for Print Journalist comes from:

What the assessment actually involves

Print Journalist is a Group B occupation with narrow highly relevant fields of study — Journalism, Media Studies, or Written Communication specifically. Its own page states plainly that the code covers 'both print editions, and digital/online publications' — an online-only journalist is not shut out by the word 'Print' in the title — and names Columnist, Feature Writer, Leader Writer and Newspaper Reporter as suitable regardless of medium. It excludes Copywriter, Newspaper or Periodical Editor, Radio Journalist, Technical Writer, Television Journalist, and the journalists nec.

Where these applications come unstuck

This is one of the few pages in the family with an extensive self-employment section of its own, reflecting how much freelance journalism actually is. A freelance journalist whose byline history is scattered across many short-term or now-defunct outlets faces the standard evidence problem in its sharpest form here: a Statement of Service needs a specific, contactable, senior signatory, and a masthead that has folded, or an editor who has since moved on, cannot supply one.

An honest read on this pathway

Print Journalist reaches six visas — 186, 190, 407, 482, 491, 494 — via combined STSOL and CSOL membership, including both employer-sponsored routes. Radio Journalist, its closest sibling by function, reaches only three of those six — it carries CSOL but not STSOL, so it is missing 190, 407 and 491 entirely despite reaching the same two employer-sponsored routes as a print byline covering the identical beat.

VETASSESS assesses qualifications and employment separately. Both need documentation that agrees with itself. The Employment History Builder and Document Vault organise each trail before you lodge.

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