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For journalists, it’s less about business, more about audience

Yelv­ing­ton is talk­ing about a bias against the busi­ness side of jour­nal­ism and a class called Busi­ness and Future of Jour­nal­ism. I would tend to agree that too many mem­bers of the Fourth Estate are phobic when it comes to dirty words like: profit, return on invest­ment, and rev­enue. I applaud the idea behind teach­ing more journalists [...]

February 4, 2008 | Categories: Business, Journalism, Management

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