Does education matter?

This article reports a secondary analysis which compares the characteristics of graduate school-trained journalists to those with only a college education. It also considers differences between studies in and outside the communication field. Besides demographics and job characteristics, assumed differences in perceived influences of education, in journalistic role concepts and audience perceptions were tested. Overall, the analysis revealed few differences but journalists with a graduate education were found to be more likely than college-educated journalists to work for larger news organizations and to support an interpretative role.