So, 2 years and some 70-odd clips later, do I intend to hang up my lab coat full-time and be a journalist? On the contrary--writing is my favorite pastime, but then so is science.
The essential requirement is not training, but the desire to communicate one's knowledge, some degree of innate talent for doing so, and a willingness to learn from experience.
Rather than looking at scientific ideas in a technical sense, we were forced to consider them in a business mindset and how feasible it would be in bringing them to the marketplace.