Unit II the major discipline and its scope training and careers in journalism

You cannot know too much or have

too many useful qualities

to be a good journalist

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Newspaper journalism is often seen as glamorous and exciting, but as with any occupation, success comes only after much hard work and routine activity. However, each day in newspapers is different and the training you receive will give you the flexibility to cover a wide range of news stories and features.

What training is necessary to make a good career in journalism?

Why does journalism appeal to young people?

Do you think that to be a good journalist one needs a higher standard of qualifications?

Is the life of a journalist very exciting?

Do you think that journalists don’t need good knowledge, but should be talented?

The answers to this and other questions you will find in Unit II.

BROADENING THE HORIZONS

Text 1 being a journalist

Scan the text and say what being a journalist from your point of view is.

Being a Journalist: Expectations and the real World Being a journalist is a profession full of dreams and desires, and since the beginning of the process to become one, the student has to face the contrast between the university and the real environment, because journalism has an advantage, that can be disadvantage too. That is, that everybody can look at the work that a reporter does, because this is the real meaning of journalism, to work for the community and for the public cause. Being in the front of the reality and in the center of illusions is the place in which the students can see the roads they can follow in the real world. Money, ethics, ideals, micro or macro-media? That becomes a dilemma when the world is in front of its expectations, and when life and people begin to remind them that, as teachers use to say:” this world can chew you up and spit you out.” What is the Ideal Training for Journalism in the UK? There isn’t any really. But I think you can make a case for at least a theoretical ideal. That is to go to a first-class college for liberal-arts course, while working on a school paper. Also, while still in college, you should get a job on a weekly or daily newspaper during summer vacations. This is almost certain to lead to a full-time job after graduation. And then, after one or two, perhaps even five years as a reporter as a desk man, you can go to a journalism school that offers graduate instruction. By now you will have learned from experience what it is in journalism that you don’t know well enough. And you can take both journalism and academic courses, and perhaps specialize in your chosen field of municipal government or science or history or literature or whatever you prefer. The only hitch in this plan is that, once most of us get a full-time job, with an attendant monthly salary, it is not easy to give up that salary and go back to school.

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