City University of New York is now offering a master’s degree in “entrepreneurial journalism.” Wow! Just when I thought a regular master’s degree in journalism was the most useless degree in all of academia!
“We’re all very concerned about sustaining quality journalism, and we think the future of journalism is going to be entrepreneurial,” said Stephen B. Shepard, the founding dean of the school and a former editor in chief of BusinessWeek.
You think it’s going to be? Yeah? Are a bunch of kids in your program planning to get jobs at paper newspapers when they graduate? If so, then they are even bigger losers than I thought they were.
Here’s the truth, kiddos. If you want to be a journalism entrepreneur, just go do it. Write some kick-ass stories. Get some advertisers. Use social media. For heaven’s sake, don’t lock yourself in a college to study it for a couple of years. Faster, my friends, the old world is behind you!
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About A Sellout's Samizdat
My journalism career sucked, and that ship's headed for the deep anyway, so I sold out. My corporate job is a joke by comparison, but it's fun in many ways to be a drone to capitalism. Here's my story of what it's like to be a sellout - published in modern-day Soviet samizdat style. If my boss knew, I'd get sent to Siberia. And while I'm at it, why not poke fun at the dumb behavior of my former tribe?
Ask me anything How Did You Sell Out With Style?
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