Ten or 12 years ago, in his first editing job, “I’d have said, ‘Follow the traditional route [by starting out at small dailies], apprentice yourself to that mythical, grizzled editor … and build a body of work, and learn by doing it.’ But a lot of those local and regional papers no longer exist, a lot of those grizzled editors have been bought out, and along the way I’ve come to think of journalism schools as maybe the last resort in a lot of cases.”

-Bill Keller, executive editor of the New York Times, on the new role of journalism school, from "Reviving the J-School," Andy Guess, Inside Higher Ed