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Postgraduate journalism qualifications have always been more highly regarded in the business, for their teaching of the vocational skills that you will actually need on the job.
Journalism qualifications are seen as increasingly important in getting work as a journalist (80% up from 72% a decade ago) and increasingly relevant to their work as a journalist (89%, up from 82% in 2002).
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This shows that although UK journalists are highly qualified (88% have a degree or higher qualification against 38% in the UK workforce as a whole) less than two-thirds (63%) have a journalism qualification.
Well-placed friends queued up to offer him satisfying jobs, no matter how hazy his qualifications – "Journalism I am absolutely unfitted for," he remarked, shortly before accepting the literary editorship of the New Statesman – and a forever faithful JM Keynes once chipped in for the school fees.
The business is now subject to a contagious outbreak of squalid, banal, lazy and cowardly journalism whose only qualification is that it helps to make newspaper publishers (and some journalists) rich".
"Oakes argued that 'fighting terrorism is obviously important' but added a qualification: 'accountability journalism is important too'," the editorial said.
You don't need a formal qualification in journalism to know where ethical lines are drawn – it should be instinctive once you've been on the job for two minutes.
I sidled into journalism without really knowing what skills, qualifications or experience were required.
Some jobs require further training or qualifications, for example fashion journalism, illustration or theatre costume-making.
It took me three years of nightschool, while working full-time as a miner, to gain the qualifications to apply for journalism college; then a further two years of rejections before I was accepted.
Minimum qualifications: "Bachelors degree in English, Journalism, Communications, or related field" — well chatbots are related to language so I reckon I can make that fly.
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