Reporter Larry Lipman Advises Future
Journalists about Their Careers

‘The Best Part of Journalism is that you get
a front row to history.’

(February 5, 2005)

Journalist Larry Lipman peers through a magical star that he mysteriously cut in a  newspaper as he began his recent presentation to Mason’s journalism class,  perhaps suggesting that these young scribes could eventually become stars in  their future field. Lipman, the Palm Beach Post bureau chief for Cox Newspapers’  Washington Bureau, talked with the young journalists about his career and the  status of journalism. "The best part of journalism is that you get a front row seat  to history," Lipman told the students, several of whom are seriously considering a  career in journalism. Lipman advised these aspiring journalists to "read as many  newspapers as you can as frequently as possible and take as many English and  economics courses as you can." He also advised students to experience the  business "first hand" by working as interns. Lipman, who has more than 30 years  in journalism and has met such well known individuals as Colin Powell, Patrick  Stewart, and the United Nations’ Kofi Annan, said, "When I walk into the office  and sit down in front of the computer screen, it’s blank. But, by tomorrow,  hundreds of thousands of people, hopefully, will have read it (my story)."  –Contributors Olivia Farrow, Maliha Adams (Photos by Sara Sugrue)