How unpaid internships harm journalism

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The gateway to many top-tier journalism jobs consists of working full-time for free in high-rent cities like New York and Washington. That's a problem, David Dennis writes in the Guardian, because it ensures that newsrooms are populated by children of privilege: "The practice of asking recent graduates to spend their days working for free while paying rent and living in a city like New York is a barrier for entry to students from mid- to lower-class backgrounds."

June 4, 2013

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