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Date: Feb 25 2005
Major: Journalism (This Major's Salary over time)
When I and my classmates were studying journalism at UK, we thought of it as a pretty mediocre school. So we spent all of our time putting out the daily, student-run, independent newspaper, the Kentucky Kernel, and paid scant attention to classes. Sounds like a recipe for failure, but newspapering is a hands-on profession, and as it turned out, a lot of us ended up very well prepared for the working world. Almost 25 years later, we count among our ranks the managing editor of a major metropolitan newspaper, the executive editor of a well-thought-of medium-size paper, a major newspaper company vice president, a Pulitzer winner, at least two AMEs at top-100 metros and several reporters and editors on the staffs of the nation's 20 largest newspapers, as well as notable reporters for the Associated Press. My advice: Shop for a J school where you can get real experience writing, editing and producing a daily newspaper, and do it day in and day out for four years, not just for a semester or two as part of a class. And the more independent the newspaper, the better ” you'll have to develop your critical thinking skills and experience the real consequences when you screw up. You may not start at a major metro, as you might have if you had been lucky, or affluent, enough to get into a school like Northwestern, Mizoo, Columbia or Berkeley, but you'll hit the ground running and move up soon enough. This is a field where you can't fake it if you can't do it, or you don't know how, and where theory takes a definite backseat to practice.
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responseSo in other words, your rose-tinted view of the University of Kentucky comes from the fact that your education was so easy that you could run a newspaper while you attended?

Idiot.

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