Opinion: Experienced journalists are needed as teachers. I became one when I least expected it. [Opinion]
. Hope and I clicked instantly, and she became a wonderful mentor to me. She hired me as a part-timer and encouraged me to pass on my knowledge to those who wanted to learn the craft.
As the years passed, longtime faculty members, including Hope, retired from teaching full time at City College. Before she did, she called me into her office, and we had a deep conversation about teaching. She told me there was a full-time job opening up and she wanted me to apply. But while I enjoyed the students and being in the classroom one day a week, I just didn’t see myself teaching full-time. I was still working part-time as a reporter for Cox Channel 4’s “San Diego Insider Magazine.
Looking back, I learned just as much from my students as they learned from me. I am so proud of them. Lots of current and former journalists also juggle teaching as part of their workload. I reached out to a few such teachers to ask why they choose to teach, especially after the pandemic, when students’ lives are more complicated.
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