Career Advice for Young (Photo)journalists

February 12, 2015 Marco | Editor

By Allen Murabayashi

Middle-aged, financial journalist Felix Salmon stirred the pot on Monday with the following tweet:

Advice for budding journalists, from @felixsalmon. (tl;dr: don’t do it!) http://t.co/lJmQ02MdNT

— Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) February 9, 2015

His longer post states that although we are living in a golden age of journalism, the future for young journalists is a bleak one, and they would be smart to avoid it for the following reasons:

There is an explosion of talented writers online, many more from non-traditional journalism paths, which thereby makes the industry incredibly competitive for not much pay.
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