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ban, metropolitan, and non. urban): general magazines; ) "trade" (industry and profes^ sional) magazines; house or; gans; books, radio-TV; public 1 relations and advertising; jour - nalism teaching; and other branches. ! Whole new specialty areas 1 have sprung up, such as the . culture beat, urban, military, and foreign affairs, religion, [ politics, and science writing; . pay and fringe benefits have [ risen; the number of colleges and universities offering jourj nalism training has multiplied; journalism scholar. ships are up. , But relatively few young peo. pie are aware of this. As a I result, a backlog of opportun• ities of unprecedented dimensions exists. , Indeed, last fall Executive Director Paul S. Swensson of ' the Newspaper Fund, Inc., estimated that the gap between I job opportunities and jourha■ I lists available to fill them now | is so great (10 or more jobs per graduate) that by conservative estimate, at least 5,000 j new journalists a year will be required to fill existing jobsa total of 25,000 in the next five years. This is far more than now are being trainedand fails to allow for new opportunities continually being created. This is the “big story” in journalism today: an almost infinite variety of challenging opportunities which appeal to idealists and others, alike. You can place first priority on a comfortable living or on serving your fellow men. Either way journalism can ■ satisfy your desires, if you train for it. If you are a student contemplating a career or you know one who is, contact your local newspaper or state newspaper association for further information, or write The Newspaper Fund, Inc., Box 300, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540, or Sigma Delta Chi, National Professional Journalistic Society, 35 E. Wacker Drive, Chicago, Illinois, 60601. Journalism has a place for you and thousands of other Americans--an exciting and rewarding reserved seat in the front row of history. You only live once. Why settle for less?
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