Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Well-rounded education key to future jobs

Reporting jobs may be undergoing a retrenchment, reports Mark Glaser, but many journalism companies also are adding jobs -- in areas other than print.

Such news stresses the importance of a well-rounded, liberal-arts education in journalism rather than a vocational outlook to train students for specific jobs that may not exist in a few years.

Read Glaser's entire piece via his MediaShift blog within PBS --
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2007/08/digging_deepertraditional_jour.html