When talking to kids about journalism
High school kids want to know about money, and that’s almost it.
Middle school kids want gross stories. If you have seen dead bodies on the job (I’ve seen two), tell them about it.
Elementary school kids want to know about your pets. I’m not sure how my cats and (shockingly) unnamed cats contribute to journalism, but apparently they do.
I was only a year or two older, at most, when my first newspaper article was published in the student newspaper of the American International School in Vienna, than the kids I talked to today. We’ll see if any of the kids I talked to today at Joshua Circle Elementary School end up going into journalism. There’s not banking industry money, but there are dead bodies.
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Don’t you read the papers? There are plenty of dead bodies and dead ducks in banking.
Comment by Joel — November 11, 2008 @ 14:58