So perhaps one part of the answer is to start providing a range of specialist courses, possibly at postgraduate level, catering for those journalists with an interest in a subject area, but who start by studying a general journalism degree.
So perhaps one part of the answer is to start providing a range of specialist courses, possibly at postgraduate level, catering for those journalists with an interest in a subject area, but who start by studying a general journalism degree.
Journalism training favours the generalist over specialisation. This damages quality and short changes readers, but it can be fixed, argues Russell Merryman.
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