I would like to read more articles about people who saw the crazy price tag on prestigious postgraduate programs, said "oh hell no", and made a rational financial decision. But such people don't work in journalism and write articles, because they make rational financial decisions
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As ever, I propose the price of all these postgraduate degrees be tripled, interest rates on their loans doubled, and the proceeds used to subsidize community colleges and vocational training.
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Journalism in general suffers from MFA disease, where practitioners are expected to pay for an insular and stifling process of hypereducation that denies them the very life experience that is a prerequisite for doing the work well. We need to move back to an apprenticeship model.
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Just like every first novel has become a coming of age story about a young author in Brooklyn struggling to make it into the Iowa Writers' Workshop (and every second novel is about the hard life of a book tour), journalism is rapidly disappearing into its own digestive tract.
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In the interests of disclosure, let me share my own postgraduate student loan story: 1. I wanted to get a master's degree in linguistics. 2. But it cost a lot of money, which I would have had to borrow. 3. And there were no job prospects to offset the cost. 4. So I didn't do it.
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Academia grows like kudzu. Five years from now you'll be able to get a degree in tweeting, and in ten years that degree will be a pre-requisite for getting a blue check here. But don't be educated stupid.
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fwiw shitting on your writing program is a (w)rite of passage for MFAs/MAs
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Damn WSJ paywall again. Could somebody please unroll, screenshot, and post this article so I can read what's wrong with the Journalism industry that makes it such a doomed career path with no financial future?

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It seems most articles/segments on this topic feature interviews with graduates of high cost/low opportunity fields. This is rarely called out by the journo. Do you have an opinion on securitization programs like what Purdue has implemented? https://www.purdue.edu/backaboiler/
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