Advice for hungry job-hunting journalism students: don’t do it

Journalism is irritating, exhausting, and barely remunerative. It is the only work we dream of doing.

It is job-hunting season for journalism students. They number in the thousands. Most will struggle for work that pays the $1,000 a week bus drivers earn. Entry-level media salaries have always been dreadful. Ex-CTV anchorman Harvey Kirck, in his 1985 memoirs Nobody Calls Me Mr. Kirck, reca...

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