Ephemera: What's Your Degree?
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Ephemera: What's Your Degree?
Look how Journalism ranks
Everyone in my generation wanted to be Woodward and Bernstein…
When I was in college CNN launched, and the future of news writing looked unlimited. Check out this new CNBC poll and see how the fourth estate looks nowadays.
Still, J-school taught me how to write without giving up, how to cold call and find the details I needed, how to pitch stories to editors, how to identify good story ideas. It’s not all inverted pyramid in the real world. But it’s a skill set you can take in so many directions.
Ephemera: What's Your Degree?
I’m the most useless one: a music degree lol.
Someone continually writes that the master's in library and information science is useless and/or that the profession is dying. My favorite was the one that said instead of being a librarian you should be a food scientist. I quite like being a librarian and think we'll be around awhile yet...