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Middle-aged, financial journalist Felix Salmon stirred the pot on Monday with the following tweet: Advice for budding journalists, from @felixsalmon. (tl;dr: don’t do it!) http://t.co/lJmQ02MdNT — Felix Salmon (@felixsalmon) February 9, 2015 His longer po

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32-year old Slate staff writer, Will Oremus, points out that the traditional paths to journalism success are indeed harder for the “traditional” candidate – that upper middle class, liberal arts educated, white male. The counterpoint is that many more non-traditional (but representative) journalists have a means to success (e.g. women, people of color, etc), and the criteria for success isn’t confined to tenure