I have the interesting opportunity to be a journalism student right now. This is, if I had to guess, maybe the end of the beginning of the transformation of how journalism is taught and defined. And, yes, at times it is a slow and bumbling process in which I sometimes suspect I am more in the know than the people teaching me. But mostly I am feeling pretty good about it, or at least making peace with the fact that if I try to go into this, I'll probably spend more than half of my career in job-limbo, working freelance, picking up gigs, and just generally making shit up as I go along (but not like that, that's frowned upon).
It's interesting, being a student at a journalism institute that's in the process of totally revamping what it considers journalism to be and how it believes it should be taught. I like it. I don't like when it seems all the apocalypse talk is getting white-washed. Just be real with me.
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