The litany of names includes big papers, small papers, medium papers and wire services. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the San Diego Tribune and even the New York Times are sick, and we don't know how to save them. Reams have been written about the troubles of the newspaper industry, so I shouldn't have to include the standard phrases about ad revenue moving online or declines in readership. This won't be a story about which company will be next or a story that offers ideas about how to generate revenue.
This will be a story about former University of Montana journalism graduate students - my classmates - and what their lives are like after graduating at possibly the worst time for the newspaper industry and the U.S. economy as a whole.
I know some of my friends did get jobs in the industry while others did not. What did the gainfully employed do right? What did the jobless do wrong, if anything?
In the coming weeks I will profile as many of my classmates as will talk to me for this story. They'll all be people who graduated recently from UM with a master's in journalism - either photojournalists who might write, or writers who may take a photo now and again.
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