Brian Smith (No, not that one)
4/3/2019 4:37 PM
So with professional journalism jobs on a rapid decline...how is our beloved school of Journalism doing? Are there less interested recruits than before? Are Graduates struggling to find jobs in the field?
Applications to Scripps-Journalism are down proportionately greater than applications as a whole. The trend is the same for our peers in the top 10-20 across the country. Several reasons cited, from difficulty in outlets monetizing news/journalism in the new media era to "fake news" and the general malaise from the populace who no longer trust the fourth estate to report without bias or slant.
It's been interesting, especially in my household given our majors, to see journalism programs and law schools kind've rise and fall on the same trajectory as far as applications and majors go the last decade or so. They both had a boom and bust at the same time.