I'm a reporter with about seven years of experience and two non-J bachelor degrees. Periodically, I wonder what I missed from skipping J-school entirely, and I search the Web for advice about journalism grad school. I found these sites that might be interesting to your other readers (and that have nothing to do with ring tones):
A copy (the site claims with permission) of a story in The New Republic called "J-School Ate My Brain," and a rebuttal letter to the editor:
http://www.uvm.edu/~tstreete/MediaCultureUVM/jschool_critique.html
Here's a link to a May Washington Post chat from the paper's AME for training and development Peter Perl:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2006/05/18/DI2006051 801378.html
Apologies if you've already linked to one or both of these sites.
I'm actually not currently looking for a job, but your site was great inspiration for my getting my current one six months ago. Thanks for all you do!
VB
And thanks to you for pitching in with some help for others!
I am sure that you missed some good J-school lessons -- but you broaden your paper more by bringing in two non-journalism degrees.
