Journalists find things out and tell people about it.
If you are teaching your students how to do that, you are not only doing your job, you are giving them the gift of a lifetime.
It is not your job to guarantee them stable employment.
I’m not even sure that stable employment is good for young journalists.
Journalists exercise power. Ideally, they exercise that power on behalf of the powerless. If they know nothing about what it is like to be powerless themselves, they may come to exercise their considerable power on behalf of the already powerful.
No truer words about this craft have been written.
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