December 16

Malcolm Gladwell's advice for young journalists: Go to grad school

oldmanasante:

farhad:

From a Time Q&A:

Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.

It’s so true that there is absolutely nobody writing from the perspective of “statistics are awesome and explain everything!” Absolutely nobody.

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