A few months ago, I came across a discouraging set of statistics regarding the future of journalism.
Journalism is considered a profession, like law or medicine.
Unlike the aforementioned fields, journalism pays very little. I know, having been a journalist for over 16 years. It's tough to pay off huge student loans and achieve even a modest standard of living with that kind of paycheck. Little wonder that 43 percent of this year's journalism grads said in the SFSU study that they might soon consider another career. Public relations was their top choice.