Ask any working journalist today, and he or she will tell you that they learned more during the first year of their first “real job” than they need in their previous four years of college.

It’s because working as a reporter or editor is something that is best learned by doing. Journalism majors may write for their campus newspaper or put together broadcast stories for their school’s radio and TV production studio – but that work tends to be intermittent as the students complete other course work.

Campus journalism is not the true “daily grind” of a professional newsman or newswoman.

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