Week 3: Student Response, News Story and Editing

Aug 28, 2017Aug 28 at 5:24pm

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There are a few areas of journalism that I plan to focus on in order to be successful in the field after college. An important part of journalism includes writing in fluent style, where the reader is gaining an impression on the writers’ philosophy of a topic while enjoying a well-written news story. This skill is important for sharing stories with illustrations to enhance the message and maintain the readers’ attention, with captions, advertisements and profile pictures. Dan Synge wrote The Survival Guide to Journalism and includes a chapter on the importance of writing a feature story that presents an balance of interesting data and graphics, so that readers “actually read in full what you have written”, (2010). A great way to share perspectives and expand upon a topic is to learn about various cultures.

Core Skills for the Future of Journalism argue that scholars and professionals do not encourage the same values of what makes a journalist successful, based upon new research from The Poynter Institute. Poynter Institute claims that educators find culture to be important at 76% while professional workers have marked cultural knowledge at lower rates of 32%. Knowledge of cultures can help give the author more details to discuss while appealing to readers who like to read. Examples that include quotes from social organizations create comparisons which can bring together or separate details for stronger arguments, (Finberg, 2014).

The ability to analyze and synthesize large amounts of data can be a difficult challenge but supports the authors ability to share information. Although core skills of journalism may differ from professor to professional, analyzing stories for specific events is an important part of storytelling. Information will appear in forms of interviews, articles or letters and critical thinking skills are needed to complete a story that is correct in substance and up to date with current events, (Finberg, 14).

Fluent writing styles, cultural knowledge and analytical skills are core values of journalism that promote a successful career and appealing content, although the importance of each value is argued between teachers and working graduates.

Johann Exantus

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