Details are sketchy, but numerous witnesses report that veteran feature editor Henry Allen punched out feature writer Manuel Roig-Franzia on Friday. The fracas took place in sight of Post executive editor Marcus Brauchli’s office. Brauchli rushed to separate the two. It should be noted that Allen is nearly seventy, but he served in the Marines in Vietnam. He also won a Pulitzer prize in 2000 for criticism. Both apparently came into play when Allen jumped Roig-Franzia. →

“Aspiring journalists should stop going to journalism programs and go to some other kind of grad school. If I was studying today, I would go get a master’s in statistics, and maybe do a bunch of accounting courses and then write from that perspective. I think that’s the way to survive. The role of the generalist is diminishing. Journalism has to get smarter.”
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Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice For Young Journalists: Skip J-School - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY (via kl7) (via interweber)

GENIUS IDEA. NO ONE GO TO JOURNALISM SCHOOL SAYS MAN WHO RECEIVED A ONE MILLION DOLLAR ADVANCE FOR HIS FIRST BOOK.

ALSO, LEARN NUMBERS. BTW, DON’T COME INTO MY FIELD B/C THERE ARE NO JOBS.

KTHX

-MG