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Friday, October 21, 2005

Nobody wants to be a journalist anymore

Posted By Cathy Resmer on Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:06 AM

I know my posts about the fate of the newspaper industry aren't the most popular posts on this blog, but it's a national conversation that interests me, and I think it's relevant. I just read this article by Mark McGuire, of the Albany Times Union, in which he relates his recent talk with high school journalism students. He was speaking to 55 students. Only one wanted to go into newspaper reporting.

Newspapers are in crisis in this country, and I don't think that's such a good thing, especially since I have no clue what could realistically replace them. So I keep bringing this up, in hopes of stimulating discussion.

Anybody who wants to eavesdrop on the national conversation among journalists should visit Jim Romenesko's blog at the Poynter site.

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Seven Days’ deputy publisher and co-owner Cathy Resmer is a writer, editor and advocate for local journalism. She works in the paper’s Burlington office and lives vicariously through the reporters while raising money to pay them. Cathy started at Seven Days as a freelance writer in 2001 and still has the Rolodex...