Peter Preston: When news is free, who pays the journalists? | Media | The Observer

Once upon a quite recent time, say a decade and a bit ago, only 3,000 or so students took university journalism and related media courses. Today you can count around 10 times that number of young people studying to inherit a green eyeshade, and there are 30 courses accredited by the National Council for the Training of Journalists (plus a rather substantial number which aren’t). Almost exponential expansion – except, where are the jobs?

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