Journalism schools are not the only places where people can learn to be journalists.
The University of Michigan History Department’s 2011 Newsletter adapted a JOTR post about the utility of a historian’s education.
But we later had second thoughts. That is, we got worried about the future of historians who convert to journalism. Journalism is not all about serving the public, and future practitioners need to know there’s a rough-and-tumble side to the profession that sometimes ain’t so nice.
