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

At a time when journalism graduates are wondering about their prospects, and some question the value of going to j-school, my post for PBS Mediashift may offer some words of comfort. The words come from a selection of seasoned news professionals, interviewed on a Flip minoHD camera at the recent International Symposium on Online Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin. In the clips, they talk about having a