Many people who end up in J-School might just as easily have gone to law school. Many were torn between the two. It tends to attract the some kind of personality- and in many ways it’s a similar career: research, investigations, analysis and presentation.

The difference between lawyers and journalists, however, is the way that they have elected to organize their own profession. Journalists end up working as employees for someone else, and are thus forever victims of the vicissitudes of the marketplace and changing technologies. Lawyers, (while it is true some become employees), tend to organize themselves in partnerships…

A Journalism Firm (to craft an interesting idea) would do the same… As a good law firm combines the high paying M&A with the lower paying family practice, so too could a Journalism Firm combine the low paying investigative journalism with the high paying Public Relations.