Why on earth would young people want to become journalists?

Award-winning blogger-journalist Dorte Toft ponders why young Danes queue up to get into journalism school on Berlingske.dk this week (via Journalisten.dk):

"I can't recommend anyone today to train as a journalist unless it's such a burning desire  that it would break your heart if you do not undertake such training. I would rather suggest you specialise in a subject and, when your get experienced in this field, use it to break into a writing career. That would also enhance your ability to make sense of our increasingly complex society," she writes in a blog post headlined "Young people WANT to become journalists. I wish they'd become something more useful" (freely translated from Danish by me). Toft herself started out as a programmer and turned to journalism later in life.