重庆大学新闻学院新闻采访与写作英文课件 Chapter3.pptVIP

LOGO Journalism: Who, What, When, Where, Why and How By James Glen Stovall Section 1/Chapter 3 Becoming a Journalist K e Y Contents And T e r m s Journalism require from its practitioners a wide range of knowledge and interests. Potential journalists can begin their preparation by paying a lot of attention to news events and to the way they are reported in various media. Becoming a journalist requires knowing a good bit about history. Writing is the most important skill a potential journalist can develop. Becoming a professional journalist takes preparation and planning. Reading widely is the mark of a good journalist. Internships: short-term jobs that college students get working for media organization; traditionally, internships last for one semester and are often in the summer. Contents Prepare Learn about the Field Get Training Go to Work Get Started Prepare Journalism is a profession that requires no degree or special training to enter the field. Most people who want to enter the field of journalism go through a training process that may take years and that, in a very real sense, never stops. The field of journalism is so vast and dynamic that the people who work there are always journalists-in-training. So How Do You Start? The first step is to develop a set of interests that may have nothing directly to do with journalism. These interests might include politics, sports, cooking, rock music, mystery novels, or rock climbing. An interest, whether it is a hobby or an expertise, helps you get in touch with the world in the way that journalists need to be. It also helps begin the process that all journalists should undertake of developing a wide range of knowledge about many different subjects. Journalists need not to know enough history to understand the context in which events take place. P R E P A R E Prepare Journalists have to understand and judge current events by what has happened in the pas