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OP, is your DD currently doing any kind of high school journalism?

Is she on the school paper staff, school magazine if there is one, student television news--? I'm not clear if she's entering her junior or senior year of HS. Why does journalism interest her at this point? What does she picture herself doing as a journalist? She should ask herself these things. I would suggest that she get involved with some form, any form, of reporting, if she isn't already involved. If she is interested in journalism -- not general "communications" or marketing, but journalism -- she should look at universities with highly regarded undergraduate journalism schools plus grad programs in journalism (the thought being: if the university has a grad program in journalism, its undergrad program is likely to benefit from that too, generally speaking).

I spent two decades in newspaper and magazine journalism, both in print and online, and know people in TV journalism. It's a truly important field and we need more, not fewer, well-trained, serious journalists. If she feels a strong interest in journalism, please encourage her.

Right now, as others have noted above, science journalism is a very good field to get into, as is data-based journalism. Reporters who can interpret data and translate it for the layperson are going to be employable forever. Look at the many reporters who are specializing in things like covering the Covid pandemic--a good example of combining science journalism with the ability to explain data and research to the public.

Journalism is not a super high-paying field until one is at a certain level, in most cases. But if it is your daughter's interest, well, it's absolutely a field where having a passion for the work trumps the so-so pay. [/quote]

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