Affirmitive ActionAffirmitive ActionBefore there were newspapers, news was taken by horse from town to town; neighbors and friends had to rely on each other for information. Now journalism is one of the fastest most competitively growing job markets and with college students clamoring for internships at vogue and rolling stone itβs difficult to get your foot in the door. Being a reporter isnβt a nine to five job with a normal salary and a weekly pay check its being stressed over deadlines and spending hours on the phone checking sources. Critics have said that journalists simply exploit human emotions, writers without ideas for books. They are wrong for journalism spreads news to the people. The media is one of the most important fundamentals of our society and journalists fuel the flame for good news.
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The only thing I like to hear is the good news if it brings up facts in an intelligent and meaningful way.
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A typical journalist who has worked in the industry for a while would be the same as the one who works for The New York Times today. You’ll see:
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“The problem with journalism, especially when it comes to news, is it leads to bad journalism.”
“Journalists work too bad for a real story. They don’t understand what is really coming and why they should be doing it.”
“Journalists put out a big bad report every time they get told a story. And the story is terrible, because your information doesn’t really have any value.” ββ
“If this was a new day, we would have changed journalism, because that would have been the worst ever! And it’s really terrible: no idea of what the story was.” ββ
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What can be written about the issue?
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“What’s our message?”
“We get what journalism provides but we really don’t feel that way. There are so many times when you would just say to somebody, the day after we had a public announcement, ‘We’re here to tell you that there came a time when newspapers had problems, and that our coverage in the world changed.'” ββ
“When I was writing, I wrote to people that had the same problem: they found it annoying to come across political views. I said to them: ‘What does your problem with public opinion look like? Who are you?’ They said: ‘No, you’re not a politician because you live in the United States, so we don’t think about ‘pro-war’ newspapers.'” ββ
It’s hard not to see:
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“Why would you write that you love the idea of an editorial board?” ββ
“I don’t love it. I don’t think we should be in the editorial business; I find it a waste of time to be part of a process. If you don’t like your role in that process, they shouldn’t be allowed to run it. It’d be as if it were a public relations agency.” ββ
There’s a sense of humor or a sense of sadness when people say, well, that they just won’t get involved, for fear of letting the journalism business go into the sunset; but it’s only one facet of that process I think is very damaging. We won’t have to rely on the power that information brings.
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The only thing I like to hear is the good news if it brings up facts in an intelligent and meaningful way.
β[Readers will probably have fun reading some of the quotes]
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A typical journalist who has worked in the industry for a while would be the same as the one who works for The New York Times today. You’ll see:
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“The problem with journalism, especially when it comes to news, is it leads to bad journalism.”
“Journalists work too bad for a real story. They don’t understand what is really coming and why they should be doing it.”
“Journalists put out a big bad report every time they get told a story. And the story is terrible, because your information doesn’t really have any value.” ββ
“If this was a new day, we would have changed journalism, because that would have been the worst ever! And it’s really terrible: no idea of what the story was.” ββ
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What can be written about the issue?
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“What’s our message?”
“We get what journalism provides but we really don’t feel that way. There are so many times when you would just say to somebody, the day after we had a public announcement, ‘We’re here to tell you that there came a time when newspapers had problems, and that our coverage in the world changed.’” ββ
“When I was writing, I wrote to people that had the same problem: they found it annoying to come across political views. I said to them: ‘What does your problem with public opinion look like? Who are you?’ They said: ‘No, you’re not a politician because you live in the United States, so we don’t think about ‘pro-war’ newspapers.’” ββ
It’s hard not to see:
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“Why would you write that you love the idea of an editorial board?” ββ
“I don’t love it. I don’t think we should be in the editorial business; I find it a waste of time to be part of a process. If you don’t like your role in that process, they shouldn’t be allowed to run it. It’d be as if it were a public relations agency.” ββ
There’s a sense of humor or a sense of sadness when people say, well, that they just won’t get involved, for fear of letting the journalism business go into the sunset; but it’s only one facet of that process I think is very damaging. We won’t have to rely on the power that information brings.
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The only thing I like to hear is the good news if it brings up facts in an intelligent and meaningful way.
β[Readers will probably have fun reading some of the quotes]
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A typical journalist who has worked in the industry for a while would be the same as the one who works for The New York Times today. You’ll see:
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“The problem with journalism, especially when it comes to news, is it leads to bad journalism.”
“Journalists work too bad for a real story. They don’t understand what is really coming and why they should be doing it.”
“Journalists put out a big bad report every time they get told a story. And the story is terrible, because your information doesn’t really have any value.” ββ
“If this was a new day, we would have changed journalism, because that would have been the worst ever! And it’s really terrible: no idea of what the story was.” ββ
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What can be written about the issue?
ββ
“What’s our message?”
“We get what journalism provides but we really don’t feel that way. There are so many times when you would just say to somebody, the day after we had a public announcement, ‘We’re here to tell you that there came a time when newspapers had problems, and that our coverage in the world changed.’” ββ
“When I was writing, I wrote to people that had the same problem: they found it annoying to come across political views. I said to them: ‘What does your problem with public opinion look like? Who are you?’ They said: ‘No, you’re not a politician because you live in the United States, so we don’t think about ‘pro-war’ newspapers.’” ββ
It’s hard not to see:
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“Why would you write that you love the idea of an editorial board?” ββ
“I don’t love it. I don’t think we should be in the editorial business; I find it a waste of time to be part of a process. If you don’t like your role in that process, they shouldn’t be allowed to run it. It’d be as if it were a public relations agency.” ββ
There’s a sense of humor or a sense of sadness when people say, well, that they just won’t get involved, for fear of letting the journalism business go into the sunset; but it’s only one facet of that process I think is very damaging. We won’t have to rely on the power that information brings.
I was first attracted to journalism because I didnβt want to be stuck in a nine to five job. Emily Rubens a correspondent for the BBC described her job as βbusyβ and βhecticβ often due to the βstress of deadlines and a broken coffee machineβ (Rubens). I first started working for my high school newspaper, it was such a large school that I got lost in the mess of other freshman contributing writers and most of my work was edited or never published at all. When I switched schools however I soon found a small team of other aspiring journalists and together we would sit in a crammed room with donuts for hours reaming out our school news. Thin computer sheets filled with news of soccer games and teacher pregnancies, bad weather and a bike accident. I was soon editor of the newspaper, a small staff of freshman writers where now mine to edit and decide if there work was good for publishing. In the summer before my senior year I traveled to London to study print journalism with other students. This experience changed my life because it solidified by choice to become a journalist.
Once I knew that I wanted to become a journalist it was difficult to know where to start. Many question if journalism is a profession at all, its not like construction work in which houses are the product. A newspaper is a written page about what has happened nothing more. The average reading level of an accredited newspaper is for high school freshman (FOJ). With writing at that level it is the simplicity that is a skill not the writing itself. College is still important but recently it has been largely discussed if it is better to major in journalism or in a field on interest. βNewspapers will be happy to see that you have a major in something specific, not