Oct 20 2009
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“ Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.
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Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice For Young Journalists
Oh snap, so this Masters program is multifunctional? Yes! Because someday I will be equipped to write a spellbinding piece of journalism along the lines of, “Hey, you, chill the fuck out about swine flu.” Then I’ll win a Pulitzer, go to Europe, marry Christian Slater and die.
(via ponymalta)
I’m disappointed in you Gladwell. Specialization is for insect colony residents, not people. We need more Renaisance Men (and Women) not less.
