Journalism Is Still Not for the Faint of Heart

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Since then, I have been on an educators' panel at a journalists' convention at which a professor at a major research university in one of the country's largest cities confessed that a total of only four undergraduate and graduate students had enrolled in a recently offered science journalism course. Well, these days we have a Presidential administration that claims to be willing to pursue treason charges against reporters and a growing number of judges and federal prosecutors who don't have any qualms about sending journalists to jail for not revealing sources.

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Journalism Is Still Not for the Faint of Heart

In the last issue, following up on the Carnegie Corporation of New York's report, "Journalism's Crisis of Confidence: A Challenge for the Next Generation," I emphasized that the intellectual and educational demands of being a competent journalist just keep growing. For more detail on this, I would urge you to carefully read the articles published in various issues of Nieman Reports o...

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