I am currently
studying Arts this year with the hope that by the end of it I will miraculously
know what career I want to follow. I am relatively certain that I want to be a
journalist, hence my choice of JOUR1111, but I am not sure what kind of
journalist. As with most 19 year olds or at least the ones I know, my career
path choices always change. At the moment, I think I want to get involved in
fashion journalism but this has bought me to a place where I am questioning
what journalism is. Is it any kind of reporting, about anything? When I was
young if someone had of asked me what I thought journalism was I would have
just assumed it referred to a man or woman who reported news stories for a
newspaper. Not tabloid magazines, just your basic finance, world or local news.
As I've gotten older I understand that those who report news on the TV are
journalists, those that seem to find glee in reporting on the trials and
tribulations of the rich and famous are journalists, there are journalists for
online papers, freelance journalists and I am sure many others that I have yet
to encounter. I'm beginning to realise that with journalism, stories don’t
always fit into black and white categories, and through this course I'm hoping
to not only be able to make a solid choice on my future career path but to gain
a better understanding of what journalism is and what it entails.
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