There's been a very interesting conversation unfolding on Twitter over the last couple of days under the #AdviceForYoungJournalists hashtag.
Recommendations for budding hacks has come fast and furious, and has ranged from the depressing (from @joemfbrown, "learn to weld") to the practical ("always carry toilet paper with you," @melissakchan advises those working overseas) and the sublime ("go into the world humbly," @JulieMcCarthyJM). As with all worthy insights, a lot of these would fall into the #AdviceForYoungAnyone category (if it existed). Full disclosure: we chimed in as well, with a recommendation to study and absorb William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White's The Elements of Style (really. It's that good.).
And then, an actual young journalist came along with some input that pretty much blew everything else away. For anyone contemplating (or still in) the industry, this fine piece by Will Butler in Medium should be required reading: http://bit.ly/1zYRDpW. Besides, what kind of self-respecting journalist listens to their elders anyway?
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