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A former reporter explains the skills that transferred to screenwriting, the ones that did not, and what finally convinced him to stop writing for readers and start writing for the screen.
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With graduation approaching, a student looks back at two years of journalism school and tries to articulate -- honestly -- what he is actually walking away with.
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A journalism student's honest first-month report: the beat assignment, the stumbles, the small wins, and the moments that finally made the whole thing feel like real reporting.
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A first-semester student confronts the gap between studying journalism and actually doing it -- and starts to wonder which one she enrolled in this program to pursue.
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A journalism student field-tests her networking instincts at industry events and reports back -- including the approaches that worked, the ones that flopped, and what she would do differently.
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The entry points, early breaks, and unexpected routes that working television writers say actually launched their careers -- and what aspiring screenwriters can learn from how they got in.
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A newly married first-year student accounts for every hour of a brutal week and confronts the personal costs that journalism grad school demands beyond tuition and time.
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A former journalism professor shares the career advice he gave students for years -- and is candid about the parts of that advice he is still working out himself.
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A student on the verge of graduation explains how he turned class assignments into real clips at major papers and magazines -- and which doors those bylines actually opened.
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What the first few months of journalism school actually look like from the inside -- the wins, the doubts, the adjustments, and the moments that tell you whether you belong here.
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