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> And there was no real training required in being a journalist This is nonsense unless you think the only training of value happens in post-graduate degree pr
by Veen 8y ago
> And there was no real training required in being a journalist
This is nonsense unless you think the only training of value happens in post-graduate degree programs. Journalists get a huge amount of on-the-job practical training.
- kbenson 8y agoThe problem with on-the-job training is that the quality of it is highly dependent on the workplace and the coworkers around you and the job in question. Just look at programming and software engineering. It takes very little to call yourself a programmer, and on-the-job training may or may not help at all.
- coldtea 8y agoOn the job journalistic training is (a) ad-hoc (b) training constrained to teach the motions and traditions of the trade -- not training on the things that you cover. Both good and bad journalists could be produced on the other end of it -- even on the same newspaper. Now consider on different, low quality, newspapers (e.g. on the job training on some gossip rag). Still, you get to call yourself a journalist, like someone who slaps together some shitty PHP code from Stack Overflow answers is a "programmer".
- Veen 8y agoAll true, but this isn’t a problem with on-the-job training. It’s a problem with all education. There are plenty of terrible professionals coming out of even well-regarded universities.