Do children really want to be journalists when they grow up?

I had to laugh when I watched the trailer for the movie Kit Kittredge: An American Girl about a precocious little girl who fights to have her story printed in the local newspaper. “Do kids really want to be reporters anymore?” I thought. Is there some tyke banging down the door of the New York Times, story in hand?

It’s hard to say. Most of us have probably heard conversations similar to those at AngryJournalist.com of aspiring reporters who got the bait and switch: they thought they were getting a job where they would write or report and make a difference, but were eventually put off by crummy editors and lousy pay.

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