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    A Career in Journalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist
    A Career in Journalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist
    A Career in Journalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist
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    A Career in Journalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist

    By Patricia Ahearne, B.A.

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    Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that impacts society to at least some degree. The word applies to the occupation (professional or not), the methods of gathering information, and the organizing literary styles. Journalistic media include: print, television, radio, Internet, and, in the past, newsreels.

    Concepts of the appropriate role for journalism varies between countries. In some nations, the news media is controlled by a government intervention, and is not a fully independent body. In others, the news media is independent from the government but the profit motive is in tension with constitutional protections of freedom of the press. Access to freely available information gathered by independent and competing journalistic enterprises with transparent editorial standards can enable citizens to effectively participate in the political process. In the United States, journalism is protected by the freedom of the press clause in the First Amendment.

    This ebook will show you the way to become a member of this profession.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSepharial
    Release dateJul 5, 2017
    ISBN9781386583301
    A Career in Journalism: A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist

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      A Career in Journalism - Patricia Ahearne, B.A.

      A Career in Journalism:

      A Beginner’s Guide to Becoming a Journalist

      By Patricia Ahearne, B.A.

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 - What Is A Journalist?

      Chapter 2 - What Type Of Degree Do I Need?

      Chapter 3 - How To Get Started Writing Before Graduation

      Chapter 4 - The Rules Of Journalism

      Chapter 5 - Building A Portfolio

      Chapter 6 - What Is Style?

      Chapter 7 - What Does A Copy Editor Do?

      Chapter 8 - Additional Degrees To Consider

      Chapter 9 - Online Journalism - The Way Of The Future

      Chapter 10 - What To Expect On Your First Job

      Chapter 1 - What 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 or winning a Pulitzer prize.  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

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