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Career Advice for Aspiring Journalists: 'Don't Bother'

30 May 2015

A few months ago, British financial journalist, Felix Salmon served up some career advice to aspiring journalists and the long and short of it was: don't bother. The mock letter made the rounds online and created a healthy debate, so Al Jazeera’s Listening Post decided to get him in front of a camera to deliver his "advice" on screen. Today is a wonderful time for journalism, argues Salmon, who is constantly astonished by the quantity and quality of the martial being produced in some of the most improbable places - but that doesn’t mean that life is good for journalists, he contends.

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