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Now, there’s one more reason to be a journalist — you can help save journalism

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In her first column for The Washington Post, Media Columnist Margaret Sullivan writes: "News reporter – that's just about the worst job you can have, right? According to one career site, it ranks dead last, behind pest-control worker and logger. The pay is paltry, the opportunities few and the prospects for advancement dim.

"But here they come: the fresh-faced graduates of journalism, media and communications schools, emerging into a brave new workforce where message bots have replaced glue pots, where truth is distorted, facts undervalued, and where success sometimes seems reduced to a numbers game about who gets the most clicks." 

Read her words of encouragement to journalists of every age in The Washington Post.

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