I finished college at twenty-two. I was going to do six months training on Fleet Street, which was the mecca of competitive journalism. I sat in on the Daily Express, and I enjoyed it so much, I thought, I gotta have a job here, just to learn.
A Ghanaian journalist has some advice for students entering the business: Mr. Saeed Yakubu, News Editor of Luv FM, a Kumasi-based radio station … urged the students to be circumspect in their writing, when they come out, to avoid any legal suits.
Eric Beecher, publisher of Aussie online phenomenon Crikey, and a former editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, has views on the decline of what he calls ‘public trust’ journalism: