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Journalism: High J-school enrollments and keen competition tighten up the Job market By LORA CUYKENDALL Of the Emerald Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series of nine articles on the job outlook for the 1976 graduate. Wednesday's article deals with Architecture and Allied Arts. While opportunities for gratis work abound, finding a paying job in journalism these days is like try ing to find a seat at a Duck basket ball game: good positions are hard to come by. With the profession becoming increasingly glamorized by movies like "All the President's Men” and the personality cults surrounding network television newsmen, more and more stu dents are entering the field. At this University, for example, enroll ment in the journalism school has risen from 370 in 1965 to 1,200 in 1976. The trend started even be fore Watergate and was linked to the deteriorating job market for liberal arts majors — journalism seemed a bridge between the arts and the professions. Competition in all fields of jour nalism — advertising, news editorial, broadcasting, photo graphy and public relations — is keen, and job applicants are be coming more and more qualified. Even weekly and suburban news papers, the traditional entry-level field, are demanding that their writers have a bachelor's degree and experience. Jobs at met ropolitan dailies are rarely going to graduates — several year’s re porting experience is required. But even though the field is flooded, communications will con tinue to play an important role in society and journalists will be needed to get the news out. The Graduate, in its job outlook report, says that those students with ex ceptional writing skils, the ability to handle specialized subjects and related talents (such as photography skills) will be in the greatest demand. The magazine also forecasts a bright outlook for photographers and darkroom technicians. As with other fields, geographic mobility is essential for finding work in journalism. “To get a job in newspapering, go anywhere but here,” is the ad vice given by Eugene Register-Guard managing editor Barrie Hartman. Hartman says an informal survey he took about a month ago indicated that in the Northwest even the small coastal and eastern newspapers are being inundated with applications. Bill Hilyard, assistant managing editor of The Oregonian, reports that he receives about three appli cations a day and interviews an average of four to five persons a week. The turnover rate at The Oregonian is slightly less than one position a year. Even though the job situation on the West Coast for journalists is generally tight, other areas of the country offer more opportunities. “If a person chooses an area like Montana or Idaho and writes to every decent daily in the state, he should get at least one offer," says Roy Halverson, journalism pro fessor. “If you work at it, you can get a job at a paper you respect. " But even persistence may not win a graduate a job in broadcast ing. Because of the scarcity of positions, it is one of the hardest fields for the beginner to break into. Ted Bryant, news director for KOIN-TV, Channel 6, in Portland, reports that turnover at that station is practically nil. 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