Pulitzer Winner Shares an Unvarnished View of Journalism

Héctor Tobar was a featured speaker at this year's Mosaic High School Journalism Workshop.

We’ve heard these cautionary words before. But that doesn’t make them any less worth repeating.

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At this year’s Mosaic High School Journalism Workshop, a two-week event held at San Jose State University, one of the visiting speakers was Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times columnist Héctor Tobar. Here’s what he told one of the 20 participating school students in a separate one-on-one interview:

“You can’t go into [journalism] expecting to make a lot of money,” Tobar said. “It’s something that you do for the love of it, and sometimes those are the best things in life.

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