In an excellent piece on increasingly empty newsrooms, the great Maureen Dowd of the New York Times bemoaned what’s no longer. The Bloody Mary’s at dawn at Tune In on Capitol Hill after working the graveyard shift at the Washington Star, the powerful scent of tobacco as writers tapped away on typewriters, the alcohol once again, but arguably most important of all, the learning. Dowd quotes former Times colleague Mark Leibovich as saying that “the best journalism school is overhearing journalists doing their jobs.”
Dowd puts it so well about the gritty glamour of old, and how it’s been replaced by the proverbial kitchen table. How will people learn to be journalists without office osmosis?
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