... degrees in journalism ...
Judging by the results, the "courses" at these teaching institutions seem to exclude knowledge of the subjects the students are going to journalise about. So what use are these "degrees" ???
"Technical" periodicals like Flight International or Aviation Week have always covered the ground pretty well, but otherwise .... And there's always the potentially disastrous effect of the "sub-editors" on what might originally have been passable copy.
Years ago I knew and admired Thurstan James, who once said his job was to know what he was going to write about and make sure the finished article fitted the space he'd got for the piece. That's Craftsmanship .