Years ago, graduates beat a familiar path
into low-level reporter jobs at newspapers or
television stations. That still happens, but when
Kelly Barnett, head of the Newhouse school’s
career counseling program, scrolls down the
list of jobs taken by recent alumni, she sees
titles like digital editorial assistant, social media
producer, video streamer, social media specialist.
So there’s work, but students shouldn’t be blind
to the challenges.
“What I’m not going to tell an incoming student
or parent is that there are so many kinds of
alternatives out there, that there are just as
many jobs out there,” Hardin said, “because I
don’t think that’s true.”