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    Career In Journalism: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Journalist
    Career In Journalism: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Journalist
    Career In Journalism: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Journalist
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    Career In Journalism: A Beginner's Guide to Becoming a Journalist

    By Anthony Ekanem

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    A great many people who want to be writers say that they want to have a career in journalism. They may envision themselves going to exotic locales to cover stories. While these things do happen to journalists, it takes a long time to make your bones before you are sent on any interesting assignments.

    A journalist is someone who reports on timely events. Timing is everything to a journalist. Whether you write for a periodical or a newspaper, you need to make sure that your articles are timely. Your purpose is to keep the public as up to date as possible when it comes to news and events that may affect them. This is the basic concept of being a journalist.
    You should report on all sides of a story, not just take one side, even if it appears that one side is right or wrong. A good journalist gets all sides of the story, prints it and then lets the reader decide, based upon the article. A good journalist does not make up the reader's mind for them.

    As you continue in your career, you will find your voice when it comes to your writing. Do not be surprised if your first articles are rewritten by your editor. Another rule that you need to learn when you are starting a career as a journalist is to not fall in love with your own work. Do not feel hurt if an editor does not like a phrase in your article, or makes some changes. They are only doing their job. You will soon get to know the editor and they will get to know your style of writing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAnthony Ekanem
    Release dateSep 20, 2016
    ISBN9783961122080
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      Career In Journalism - Anthony Ekanem

      Table of contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Career In Journalism

      Anthony Ekanem

      Chapter 1

      Who Is A Journalist?

      A great many people who want to be writers say that they want to have a career in journalism.  They may envision themselves going to exotic locales to cover stories.  While these things do happen to journalists, it takes a long time to make your bones before you are sent on any interesting assignments. 

      I became a journalist purely by accident.  Unlike others who seek out journalism as a career, I wanted to be a writer.  I envisioned myself writing books of fiction and entertaining the masses.  My parents talked me into going to college and getting a degree in journalism.  They told me that it was a good idea to have something to fall back on, in case I couldn’t make a living writing fiction for a living.  Five years and 100 rejections later, I realized they were right. Fortunately, my degree in journalism helped me support myself so that I didn’t have to go back home after I got out of school. 

      I had no idea what a journalist did until I got my first job at a local paper when I was still in school.  I was hired as a stringer and had to report on meetings.  It was boring, but it paid for extras.  Someone said that I was a journalist and I realized that I was actually working in a field for which I was studying. 

      A journalist is someone who reports on timely events.  Timing is everything to a journalist.  Whether you write for a periodical or a newspaper, you need to make sure that your articles are timely.  Your purpose is to keep the public as up to date as possible when it comes to news and events that may affect them.  This is the basic concept of being a journalist. 

      Since I became a journalist, I have made many mistakes.  I’ve broken the rules a few times but learned lessons from each rule that I broke.  It has taken me six years since I first started getting paid for my writing as a journalist, but in that time, I have become a good journalist.  While my assignments are not exotic, I make a decent living and do something that I really enjoy. 

      If you are thinking about becoming a journalist, you have to remember that the following rules apply: 

      Impartiality

      You should report on all sides of a story, not just take one side, even if it appears that one side is right or wrong.  A good journalist gets all sides of the story, prints it and then lets the reader decide, based upon the article.  A good journalist does not make up the reader’s mind for them. 

      Timeliness 

      Your stories have

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