Post by elpresto on Oct 14, 2007 23:12:25 GMT -5
I've got a BAJ, although I'm not using it at the moment! My husband was a print journalist, but is working on a MAJ right now. Also have a few buddies in PR, mostly for sports teams here in the US.
I don't regret my degree because it helped me become a better consumer of the media, better writer, and gain contacts across the country. BUT print journalism as we know it is dying. If you do go into print in school, make sure you lean toward convergence so you can change with it. (That's why the hubby went back... to learn web, radio, and broadcast.) Do what you can to make yourself more marketable!
Good luck to you.
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Sorry, should have READ the whole discussion before commenting.
Celtriya--- Are you interested in making a career change? If you're looking for more of a 9 to 5 job that has a decent income, PR is your thing. If you don't want to sell your soul to the Devil, go the journalism route! ;D Heh-heh.
Seriously, everyone's points about crappy journalists are valid. MY university required a Journalism Ethics course before graduation, but not all do. One thing to consider however, is that journalist's work is out there for everyone to pick apart, but the public doesn't access to the day to day work of other professions.
In addition, people sometimes have a disconnect between their mouths and their brains. There have been quite a few instances where sources have complained about being misquoted until I played back the tape for them. Hearing their voices saying what they had just been denying always shuts their traps pretty fast!
I don't regret my degree because it helped me become a better consumer of the media, better writer, and gain contacts across the country. BUT print journalism as we know it is dying. If you do go into print in school, make sure you lean toward convergence so you can change with it. (That's why the hubby went back... to learn web, radio, and broadcast.) Do what you can to make yourself more marketable!
Good luck to you.
Modifying...
Sorry, should have READ the whole discussion before commenting.
Celtriya--- Are you interested in making a career change? If you're looking for more of a 9 to 5 job that has a decent income, PR is your thing. If you don't want to sell your soul to the Devil, go the journalism route! ;D Heh-heh.
Seriously, everyone's points about crappy journalists are valid. MY university required a Journalism Ethics course before graduation, but not all do. One thing to consider however, is that journalist's work is out there for everyone to pick apart, but the public doesn't access to the day to day work of other professions.
In addition, people sometimes have a disconnect between their mouths and their brains. There have been quite a few instances where sources have complained about being misquoted until I played back the tape for them. Hearing their voices saying what they had just been denying always shuts their traps pretty fast!