For my latest post for PBS Mediashift, I looked at how our journalism grads from 2009 are faring. The students graduated from the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, where I teach, into an industry in upheaval, buffeted by a deep recession. It clearly is a tough media environment, but the grads found there are opportunities. However, most of these seem to be freelance, part-time or contract positions, and some are

Image by Giorgio____ via Flickr Given the tidal wave of bad news about the journalism industry, a story with the headline, “Surprise! J-school grads are finding jobs“, is bound to attract attention. Best of all, the headline is not link bait. Instead the Daily Finance story reports on how journalism school graduates in the US are thriving. It found that two-thirds of recent grads from Columbia University’s Graduate School of