The death of the working class reporter
Journalism is becoming an elite profession—and that’s bad news
7 min readJun 25, 2019
Back in college, our newswriting class was assigned All Over But the Shoutin’, an autobiography by Pulitzer Prize winner Rick Bragg. His was a Horatio Alger story, the journalist version of the American Dream. Bragg managed to make it all the way to the New York Times without ever completing…
