Student with a question

Really? I'm 12 years out of college and gainfully employed (well, for now, anyway).

But hell, you said I can't get a job. Guess I better get used to eating government cheese.

 

and drinking government Kool Aid

 

Responses like these further my view that journalists themselves are doing more to drive the profession into the ground than are outward forces. Seems like an unnecessary whiplash to me.

 

Ah, it's just somebody bitter with their own life, and he's projecting it upon all of us.

I fully intend to be gainfully employed until I retire on my own terms, and it's going to be in PRINT journalism.

P.S. If you spell "can't" without an apostrophe, maybe you CAN'T get a print job.

 

Thanks to everyone for the responses. I am taking a preliminary course in journalism to see how I like the course work and then will decide whether to stay in journalism or to stay in TV/Video.

 

yeah, but you're like two years from retirement age, aren't you?

 

i'd go back and read what bigsleeper wrote several posts up. he pretty much nailed it. if you're interested in this profession, minor in journalism with an out as a major. and when i'm filling a job, clips impress me much more than someone's major.

 

Correct my misconception about the video/production end of things, but if you're working in that area, don't you have the opportunity to write as a producer? Seems to me that's the technical background you want, with the ability to write. But I have advised students generally against getting into print journalism without some kind of technical (video, Internet, etc) expertise. At our shop, that's where all the growth is.

 

That's not entirely true. In all seriousness, for example, many foreign correspondents have master's degrees.

 

Same here. I don't pay as much attention to whether someone went to Big Time Nationally-Known J School or majored in English Lit at Podunk State as some might. If your clips are great, they will be freshest on my mind when it's time to schedule the second interview.

 

How big is your shop? Because I think editors at big papers do care. I think it's stupid, but I think they care.

 

yeah. a mizzou degree and shitty clips are all folks are looking for these days.