Hm.

[thenightfly5150]

Kevin Paul Dupont, Hockey Hall of Fame writer for The Boston Globe, posts on a hockey forum that I frequent. Dupont posted the following as a response to a thread a young journalist started about his/her first published article:

Sincere congrats, [name removed].

Those of us in the biz, be it for a day or a lifetime, well remember our first byline. It

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[patrick_vecchio]

So what would Dupes say if a career in print is really someone's dream-someone's *calling,* to use a word that certainly is not out of place? Would he say abandon the dream, forsake the calling and go into writing copy for catalogs?

Young writers - I'll define them as writers who are one-third to one-half my age - have no idea how fearless they are. They have the ability to survive the sinking of the Titanic in the sea of oil. And they'll come out stronger for it. Staying in the journalism game can help them develop skills that will be useful should they decide to switch careers, too. And I am not as pessimistic as Dupont is about the future of journalism. News printed on paper and distributed to large numbers of people is a dying concept. But news delivered in electronic formats is a burgeoning idea, and for the internet models of publications to be able to sustain themselves with advertising, they're going to have to have something to draw readers to those sites. Something like news stories to help people make sense of their world.

Dupont is a great writer, but I've yet to see him quoted or cited anywhere as a media analyst.

[thenightfly5150]

Makes me very happy that people like you are teaching future journalists rather than Dupont.

And I agree that news delivered in electronic formats is the way of the future. About 80% of everything I do in my job is for the web, social media, or another electronic format.