Tuesday, September 4, 2012

What is journalism? What is a journalist?


What is journalism? The video shown above is a great description of what journalism entails. Journalism can be found in newspapers, broadcasting, magazines, and on the radio and television. Journalism is not only writing but the report of an investigation. It comes from the perspective of the writer but only includes facts. Journalism grows from the opinions of it's readers.  With journalism, come standards like honesty and commitment. Journalism provides information on current events across the globe. Popular subjects among journalism are politics, stock markets, justice, health, entertainment, wars, and so on.  Without journalism, the world would not be as knowledgable of public affairs at the time.  But journalism is not at all possible without the work of a journalist.  Journalists do all of the investigating required to present a newsworthy story.  Some specific journalist jobs include reporters and editors.  Their job is to search through news and discover what is true and false, then decide what information should be published.  When creating a story, they look for information that would attract an audience.  Difficulty occurs when separating fact from fiction and opinionated views.  There are good journalists and bad journalists.  Whether they are writing fact or fiction is up to them, but in all cases, the truth will come out.  Journalism revolves around current events, and journalists are the ones who sort through and find the breaking news stories we all love to read or watch.  Below is a link to a website with valuable information on journalism. 

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