My two cents: Grad school isn’t going to teach you anything new, and it won’t make you a better writer. It will help you network. You have to decide if that’s something you want to pay so much for. If, however, you’d be able to go for free through scholarships and the like, then go for it.
but, it will buy you contacts. I’ve spoken to many, many journalists and writers on this subject, and they all agree that while getting a master’s is great for networking (or if you want to teach someday), it’s really not worth the thousands of dollars and the years of debt to learn how to do something that you either have a talent for, or you don’t.
If you already have an undergrad degree in journalism, you’d be wasting your time getting another journalism degree in grad school. However, if you never studied journalism, and perhaps majored in English or something, a grad degree in journalism wouldn’t hurt (it would teach the the basics and help you network.)
The main point of a grad program is to network. If you already have experience and feel confident that you can move forward in your career, I wouldn’t spend time getting a journalism grad degree because you really don’t even need an undergrad degree to be a journalist.
Oh, and I’m only speaking from the point of view of someone who once wanted a grad degree in journalism and then realized that my undergrad degree was more than sufficient.
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My two cents: Grad school isn’t going to teach you anything new, and it won’t make you a better writer. It will help you network. You have to decide if that’s something you want to pay so much for. If, however, you’d be able to go for free through scholarships and the like, then go for it.
It won't buy you a job...
but, it will buy you contacts. I’ve spoken to many, many journalists and writers on this subject, and they all agree that while getting a master’s is great for networking (or if you want to teach someday), it’s really not worth the thousands of dollars and the years of debt to learn how to do something that you either have a talent for, or you don’t.
It depends...
If you already have an undergrad degree in journalism, you’d be wasting your time getting another journalism degree in grad school. However, if you never studied journalism, and perhaps majored in English or something, a grad degree in journalism wouldn’t hurt (it would teach the the basics and help you network.)
The main point of a grad program is to network. If you already have experience and feel confident that you can move forward in your career, I wouldn’t spend time getting a journalism grad degree because you really don’t even need an undergrad degree to be a journalist.
Oh, and I’m only speaking from the point of view of someone who once wanted a grad degree in journalism and then realized that my undergrad degree was more than sufficient.