Some people wake up every morning, go through their morning routine and know what to expect from their day. It could be a typical boring day in the office, or a job that never changes from day to day. This sounds like an awful way to live life. I don’t want to wake up and know what to expect from my day. I want surprises and changes; I want to learn new things. This is where being a journalist comes in. As a journalist you may be heading to the same “job” each day, but what that job offers you is different everyday. Journalists get to collect, organize and deliver the most important current events and news to the public. This news is new and ever changing. Journalists need to be on the ball at every moment; they never know when something breaking is going to happen. As a result the journalists job offers some sense of excitement. You never know what’s going to happen, therefore you never know what you will get to report on and learn about.
When I first came to college it was for engineering. I quickly learned that just because I didn’t enjoy English classes in high school, this didn’t mean I wouldn’t enjoy communication and journalism classes at the college level. I quickly ran away from engineering and right to the communication and journalism department. I realized that journalistic writing is very different from the writing an English major would do, or the writing I did in high school classes. It’s not studying classic literature, or reading long novels, but being up to date with the world and knowing about important issues that are arising everyday, being up to date with the current politics, the information that journalists study and gather is endless.
Regardless of what happens in the world, there will always be a need for journalists. It is a field that is very competitive and demands potential candidates be the best they can be. This includes having great writing skills, but also an extensive working knowledge of important technologies and equipment. The better rounded a journalist is, the better there chances for success. This means adding new bits of knowledge and information to your brain everyday. With jobs in newspapers on the decline, jobs in newspapers, radio and T.V are doing well. This means that journalists must have an extensive working knowledge of technologies and be able to create packages for various mediums. to This is something that seems like a fun job, a job where you can remain up to date and current with everything going on. There are still job offerings in the field, they just require the best possible candidates. This is why an aspiring journalist must be the best that they can.
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Check out this graph. It is a coloration between the jobs in manufacturing and jobs in journalism.
Some tips from an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nigel Jaquiss
Just to prove the journalists are regular people, here are some comical bloopers:
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