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What Kind Of Journalist?

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Journalism is an exciting industry. It creates a plethora of parity in society. Journalism creates many valuable opportunities. This industry allows you to learn more about humanity, be a quick critical thinker, be better at handling pressure, learn to ask questions, improve your pitching skills, and learn how to be concise. Journalists are always to tell the truth and have an enormous amount of pressure to be unbiased. There are many types of journalists, like investigative, broadcast, fashion, business, sports, print, news, and medical journalists. Journalists are versatile because every aspect of life can be newsworthy in various ways. I have always wanted to be a sports Journalist. Growing up, I always wanted to talk about sports. Sports was the heartbeat of my life. I played sports, watched it, and I love talking about it. In addition, I have always found print, medical, and broadcast journalism interesting as well. I want sports journalism to be my main job, but I also want to be another type of journalist versatile to my values. The more you can do in the Journalism industry, the more success you will have. I want to be a positive journalist who changes the world, knows how to tell the truth, and is the best journalist with the most accurate information. Journalism is the industry in which I can succeed and have a fantastic impact. Journalists are the most underrated industry today. Journalism is a complex industry, and many journalists worldwide never get the appreciation they deserve. Journalists make the world better and often save lives without people knowing it.

At What Cost

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Journalism often is the common ground of media. Most media today are owned by giant corporations that are nonmedia companies. Companies like Disney, Comcast, and AT&T/Warner Media are a few examples. The bigger businesses often do not have competition, making prices higher for the average consumer. People are often the product of the things they use. For example, all social media apps may be free, but social media consumers are the product.
Furthermore, this is because social media uses different advertisements to help pay for their product. Those who often control or own these large corporations, plus the media, are the owners. Those who control the media are media owners, advertisers, the government, special interest groups, sources, and audiences. New innovative ways of providing media have increased over many years. As a result, this allowed journalists to essentially “change clothes.” The change in media changed journalism, which allowed journalism to be broader. Media has become more digital, and the expansion of technology only creates more abundant ways to use the media. Journalists and media members publish digitally before paper or physical copy. Online websites, newspaper articles, and news sites often allow consumers to view some content for free, but unlimited access requires a subscription. Paywalls are created based on this idea and result in less traffic. Somebody must pay the stock owners. Owners can answer government and advertisements.
Media has become more hyperlocal, explaining the geographic niche side of things. Niche is like the life side of media describing education, environment, politics, and public safety. Furthermore, non-profit journalism and hybrids have become new forms of journalism. Journalism is constantly changing, but the change is always for the better. If it bleeds, it leads Journalists to adapt to the recent changes. Journalism must explain why to help people make informed decisions. Journalism has the freedom and right to produce news, but journalists could cause friendships, conflict, and even tension between them and their bosses by just telling the truth. To become a journalist, you must be prepared to tell the truth no matter what, report everything, and consistently report unbiased information. This industry takes focus, commitment, dedication, and hard work. Journalists must be ready for anything and do their job no matter the circumstance. Journalists are becoming more valuable as they correlate with the media.

Eye of the Beholder

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Images are a vital part of journalism. There are many pictures from around the world. Many of these pictures represent things not just in journalism, these things impact people’s daily life. Advertising is another way a certain image can be portrayed. Advertisements usually show the product being advertised is ok to use. For example, some beer companies promote their beer through different advertisements. This could be seen as advertising the wrong product because beer is not healthy for the human body. In journalism, an image can define the outlook of a particular story. Images give audiences an idea of a story, and images can give a clearer picture of news within a story. Signs and symbol systems allow people to better understand pictures by creating an encoding process. In addition, Images also can be interpreted in a plethora of ways. Lighting, facial expressions, and angles are one of many ways that can determine the outlook of a story. Knowing the feelings of others is key in the journalism field. It helps journalists decipher whether they will be able to gather information. Images create a photo perspective on the things that are being reported, and photos can help people comprehend the story better. Pictures can also show dialogue, and they can help journalists gather extra information based off the quoters form the dialogues. Photographs are like recordings as they decode certain places or sites. Pictures are particularly important as they can be the very thing that gives evidence to an audience, and they help paint the picture to a story. 

Keeping Yourself

Many journalists are faced with a plethora of dangerous tasks. Journalism can be an extremely dangerous job. Journalists sometimes are viewed as threats, and they have been killed just for doing their job. Journalists must cover news on dangerous sites like severe weather dangerous cities, and even sometimes during police investigations, shooting and sometimes extremes fires. Journalism is no easy task, and it can be a lot of arduous work. In addition, this could allow the average human to panic or even lose his/her mind. Reactions like this are called trauma. Trauma is an event or experience that causes a person to be mentally and emotionally painful distress. One way a journalist can prevent trauma or extra stress is by protecting his/her mental health. Mental health is especially important, and bad mental health can cause a full breakdown to the body. The better Someone’s mental health, the more activities they can do over a day. The worse a person’s mental health is the less they can do, and an unhealthy mind can even cause a loss of appetite plus sickness. The best way to keep an efficient mental health is by building good habits. Things like talking about problems to someone you trust, taking breaks and even exercising. These three ways not only keep your mind healthy, but they keep your body healthy too. Journalism must be 100% into their job at an elevated level, and self-improvement plus care is the very thing that could save a journalist. Journalism comes with a lot of adversity, but the key is for journalists to stay focused. Without journalists, news would not get reported and creatin stories that need to be exposed would not be exposed. Journalists are unbelievably valuable and produce a huge contribution to today’s media plus society. 

35 or Less

Journalism creates many ways to report the news. The basics of journalism include things like the lede, inverted pyramid and T.I.C.C.U.P.P. To know if something is newsworthy or not, journalist must use T.I.C.C.U.P.P. If certain stories satisfy the two of the three news values, then that story is newsworthy enough to inform citizens on certain information that effects their everyday life. Every news story must answer the 6 basic questions following the inverted pyramid. The inverted pyramid allows journalists to organize the most essential information to the least essential information. Framing a story allows journalists to ask certain questions that relate to the story. In addition, the lede summarizes the story and gives the most valuable information. A lede help kick start a story. A lede is like the intro to a story, and it allows readers to be hooked to the news being reported. A lede is always supposed to be 35 words or less. If a lede is delayed, a nut graf would be required in the second or third paragraph. Nut Graf justifies to reader why a story matters, and it explains why they should care about a certain topic. This keeps stories current, and it allows the latest news to be reported. The first and second person should never be used when reporting news. When quotes are used, journalists are to always use quotation marks. The opposite in a quote attribution is to always be avoided. Bullet structures must be used when extra information is given to non-related items of a story. All articles should end with –30-. The better journalists are at mastering the basics the greater news stories will be. 

What is news?

What is the news? News is newly received or worthy information, especially about recent or momentous events. News is the key to building an interesting story. Journalists must gather reports, facts, and data to create a story. The identity of these stories comes from the events happening locally and nationally. Stories that flow within the news values are how news is curated into something important. Sources are another key method to attain information to create news stories. Journalists should always verify their sources. Fake sources lead to fake news. False facts, old news, fake sites are three examples that are the heartbeat of fake news. The key to the news is the truth. Telling the truth is the most efficient way to explain news. Untrue news confuses people, and it can cause division among networks, employees and even sometimes the government. News must be accurate, consistent, and current to keep others’ interest. News informs others about the world around them. Journalists should always report news without being biased. Bias news could sometimes lead others to lean toward a certain side. Journalists job is the report the news from a center perspective. One sided news is not always the best news, and it could lead to false narratives plus assumptions. News is usually found on the internet, phones, tv, magazines, computers and even newspapers. News is everywhere. It is imperative to choose the most accurate news. Choosing the most accurate news will allow fake news to decrease. Real is always better than fake. Real allows the world to heal, but fake allows the world to shake.