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I mean, if you think about the college daily papers publishing since this era .. a great majority of those running those newsrooms every year go on do to that very thing … something else. With papers that continue to exist where there’s never been a journalism program. And my most treasured colleagues and marketplace colleagues often share a common bond of past newspaper/journalism work experience. They most often possess that specific set of skills that training course describes …

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Chris, you’re absolutely right. And it’s one of the things we sell at the Jandoli School, both for our grad and undergrad programs. You don’t have to work in newspapers to benefit from a journalism degree. What stands out to me in this is the real decoupling of “journalism” as a vocation, a calling, and “newspaper work” as a job. I think that’s interesting, and very much keeping with that era.

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