[Redrum]

Worked as reporter and editor after Stanford.  Had a great time not making much money in my SoCal home town.  A really vicious union battle won (just barely) by the Knight Ridder management resulted in the ISL-style destruction of some really good reporters' and editors' careers.  (One guy had his desk moved to a store room the very next day and was not provided with a phone.)  And,  the promised changes used as bait to sway enough of the editorial staff to vote for the company...well, those were never seen or discussed subsequently.
Very lucky happenstance--sharing a ride with an unfamiliar new Stanford grad to Stanford/USC game --eventually allowed me to resign and get out into the wide world.  Over the next two decades virtually every survivor and their successors either bailed or were laid off.  By the time Google became really useful,  I could not do a name search and find any of  the original 50+ that had any connection with journalism anywhere.  Even the havens to which my cohort fled to keep working in journalism imploded.  But I'm sure the kids who pay the $47 K bonus to get their tickets punched by UC's  journalism program will do better.

But the scary thing is the  whole college/university bubble will most likely deflate and it could  be an unpretty re-enactment of journalism's life journey.

[Redrum]

Worked as reporter and editor after Stanford.  Had a great time not making much money in my SoCal home town.  A really vicious union battle won (just barely) by the Knight Ridder management resulted in the ISL-style destruction of some really good reporters' and editors' careers.  (One guy had his desk moved to a store room the very next day and was not provided with a phone.)  And,  the promised changes used as bait to sway enough of the editorial staff to vote for the company...well, those were never seen or discussed subsequently.
Very lucky happenstance--sharing a ride with an unfamiliar new Stanford grad to Stanford/USC game --eventually allowed me to resign and get out into the wide world.  Over the next two decades virtually every survivor and their successors either bailed or were laid off.  By the time Google became really useful,  I could not do a name search and find any of  the original 50+ that had any connection with journalism anywhere.  Even the havens to which my cohort fled to keep working in journalism imploded.  But I'm sure the kids who pay the $47 K bonus to get their tickets punched by UC's  journalism program will do better.

But the scary thing is the  whole college/university bubble will most likely deflate and it could  be an unpretty re-enactment of journalism's life journey.