Less than three months stand between me and graduation, so I am searching for jobs in my field like all other millions of soon to be grads. All of this time spent focusing on the future has spurred me to ponder the overall future of journalism. Newspapers are stopping the presses and are becoming digital-first publications and web-only news sources are increasing their impact. Magazines are going out of business and bloggers are becoming trusted purveyors of information. Trying to predict even the next five years in the industry feels like squinting through intense fog while driving down a highway you’ve never been down before.
This leads many to question the profession of a journalist and what the appeal is. Newspaper reporter made it on a list of top five worst jobs in this report back in 2012. One commenter on the page likened working at a newspaper to working at Myspace. Jeff Bercovici at Forbes wrote a really inspirational post responding to the report that I still look at from time to time to remind myself why I chose this path.
Another study proved that journalism doesn’t deserve the bad rap it got from the original report: according to it, unemployment rates and salaries for journalist and computer scientists are much more similar than what you would expect.
So all in all, the future of journalism is unpredictable and we must change with it; but then, isn’t that the draw of journalism? To be faced daily with thrilling uncertainty and to make something tangible out of it?
April Garon 
This is really a very interesting article. I never looked at journalism that way. Good writing.