There’s history, education and fun in this new book on the press gallery
Submitted by Geoffrey Stevens on Mon, 10/22/2018 - 08:45There was a time, following the Watergate scandal of 1972-74, when it seemed as though every young person in North America wanted to be a journalist.
Journalism promised excitement and glamour. Universities could not keep up with the demand for new journalism schools. A survey at the time found there were more students in J-schools in the United States than there were jobs on all the country’s daily newspapers.
That was then.