Last week, the Sun’s editor, Tony Gallagher, spoke out against the university route into journalism. “One of the mistakes of the media industry over the last 20 years,” he said, is the requirement that recruits need to have a degree and/or a post-graduate MA in journalism.
Restating an argument of many a veteran reporter and subeditor, he told a Newsworks conference that journalism is not a profession requiring an academic grounding.
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