Wall Street Journal or LiveJournal?
I understand perfectly what sorts of stories belong in newspapers and what sorts of stories belong on your personal livejournal. But I got to thinking about how that line sort of blurs when you deal with smaller, local papers. I know back home, we've got this tiny little paper that sure enough puts out stories on the same importance level as ladies who bake pies. I'm not saying it's a good paper, but it still manages to stay in business. So that must mean there are people out there who read all those little mundane stories as a matter of civic pride (they're probably not my target audience, though).
I've never met anyone who I think would want to write such boring things, so I'm going to assume that we all hope to do better if/when we become journalists. I'm a creative writing major, but I'm pretty certain that I have the skills to be a journalist if I needed to. Will it count against me if I don't have a degree in it?
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I've never met anyone who I think would want to write such boring things, so I'm going to assume that we all hope to do better if/when we become journalists. I'm a creative writing major, but I'm pretty certain that I have the skills to be a journalist if I needed to. Will it count against me if I don't have a degree in it?
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When you go in for a journalism job interview, they might give you an editing test, and they might give you a transcript of a press conference and they might expect you to turn it into a news article in an hour (and they might repeatedly interrupt you with random questions during that hour, just to see how you'd handle the pressure of the news environment).
I would recommend that you take EL227 ("News Writing"), and of course I think the other journalism courses will be helpful, but as a creative writing major, if you get an internship writing news for a local paper, and you build up a portfolio of differnt kinds of news articles (for the internship and the shcool paper), then as long as you know your AP Style manual, then I think any English major would still be competitive for a job in journalism.