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Q: What are the types of media reports? Q: How does one verify a truthful media report? Q: What should news readers know? Q: What should nonfiction movie watchers know? Q: What are the various branches of media? Q: What should media look forward to? Q: What is journalism? Q: What do beginning journalists do? Q: Is journalism for you? Q: What is Mass Communication? Q: What kind of career will a Mass Communication major prepare me for? Q: What advice would you give to anyone wishing to be a journalist? Q: What Do Newspaper Journalists Do? Q: What type of work do people do in photojournalism? Q: What kind of background is important? Q: What other qualities and skills are valuable? Q: What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a photojournalism emphasis? Q: What are the salaries and working environment like in this field? Q: How would you describe your role? Q: What are your main responsibilities? Q: What hours do you work? Q: Who do you work with? Q: What special skills or qualities do you need for your job? Q: Why did you choose this type of work? Q: What training do you receive/have you done? Q: Do you use any tools or equipment? Q: What do you like/dislike about your job? Q: What are the particular challenges in your work? Q: How do you see your future? Q: In what way do you consider any of the above activities relevant to the work of a journalist? Q: What were the chief influences in choosing journalism as a career? Q: What do you feel are your main strengths/aptitudes for it? Q: What steps have you been able to take to prepare yourself for it? Q: What do you believe to be the role of a newspaper? Q: How would you pay for the tuition fees and other costs of the course? Q: Where did you hear about this course? Q: What is the concentration option? Q: Do any courses outside the department count toward the major? Q: Am I required to be on newspaper, TV, Films or radio staff for my major? Q: What are the admission requirements for this program? Q: What kind of jobs can I expect to get when I graduate? Q: Where do I go if I have questions? Q: What type of work do people in newspaper journalism? Q: What kind of background is important? Q: What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in school? Q: How do you benefit from learning from faculty who have had practical experience in the field? Q: Where do Journalism students get internships? Q: What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a newspaper journalism emphasis?What are the salaries and working environment like in this field? Q: Do I have to have a background in journalism? Q: How long are the assignments? Q: How do I become a Journalist? Q: Which emphasis should I select? Q: What Is Multi-Media Journalism? Q: What is Broadcast Journalism? Q: What is Print Journalism? Q: How Long Does It Take To Become A Journalist? Q: What other qualities and skills are valuable? Q: What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in school? Magazine Journalist Q: What is the work like? Q: What qualifications and experience will employers look for? Q: How would you describe your role? Q: What is your daily routine? Q: What hours do you work? Q: What's your working environment like? Q: Who do you work with? Q: What special skills or qualities do you need for your job? Q: Why did you choose this type of work? Q: What training have you done? Q: Do you use any tools or equipment? Q: What do you like/dislike about your job? Q: What are the particular challenges in your work? Q: How do you see your future? Q: What further training and development can I do? Q: Where can I go for more information? Q: What do you write about? Q: Do you have a typical day? Q: Do you use any special equipment? Q: What was your route into your career as a legal journalist? Q: How do you get hold of stories? Q: Why did you choose this type of work? Q: What training have you had? Q: What hours do you work? Q: What do you like best about your career as a legal journalist? Q: Do you have any dislikes? Q: What kind of person succeeds in this job? Q: What are your long-term career goals? Q: How does one write a news story? Q: How do you establish a printing press? Q: How do you program a printing press? Q: How do you start a lecture? Q: How do you continue a lecture? Q: How do you close a lecture? Q: How do ministers, fraudulently planted legislators, and the state administration control newspapers and media? Q: What is Journalism? Q: How would you rate your English language skills on a scale of 1-10? If you rate yourself as 10, you should be able to answer all English language questions. Q: What other qualities and skills are valuable? Q: What kind of background is important? Q: How would you describe your role? Q: What are your main responsibilities? Q: What hours do you work? Q: Who do you work with? Q: What special skills or qualities do you need for your job? Q: Why did you choose this type of work? Q: What are the particular challenges in your work? Q: How do you see your future? Q: Am I required to be on newspaper, TV, Films or radio staff for my major? Q: What are the admission requirements for this program? Q: What kind of jobs can I expect to get when I graduate? Q: Where do I go if I have questions? Q: What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in college? Q: Where do Journalism students get internships? Q: What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a newspaper journalism emphasis? Q: What are the salaries and working environment like in this field? Q: Do I have to have a background in journalism? Q: How long are the assignments? Q: What type of work do people do in photojournalism? Q: What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a photojournalism emphasis? Q: What are the salaries and working environment like in this field? Q: How do I become a Journalist? Q: Which emphasis should I select? Q: What Is Multi-Media Journalism? Q: What is Broadcast Journalism? Q: What is Print Journalism? Q: How Long Does It Take To Become A Journalist? Q: What other qualities and skills are valuable? Q: What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in college? Media is not only a mirror of the society but also an instrument for social change and progress. It informs and educates the society and acts as an agent of communication between various sections of the society. World wide media: Don't publish statements of so-called world leaders unless you see and deliberate with them face to face, with questions and answers. People in the media need to have good character and good behavior like any other civilized human being – in addition to being competent. What are the types of media reports? 1. An event report. 2. An incident report. 3. An investigation report. 4. A death report. 5. Findings of a commission report. 6. An appointment. 7. A resignation report. 8. A statement report. 9. An industry-specific update. 10. An education-specific update. How does one verify a truthful media report? Take a media report and verify its credibility while consulting different resources. What should news readers know? It takes minutes to read a news story. It takes hours to research a media report, put it together, edit it, and then present to the audience. Sometimes it takes, weeks, months, or years to put together an investigative media report. What should nonfiction movie watchers know? Each five to ten minute nonfiction movie that imparts good character, good behavior, situation-specific, industry-specific civilized education, takes ten to twelve hours to research and produce. This gets done a few hours each day. What are the various branches of media? 1. Electronic media, including TV, radio, Internet. 2. Print media – newspapers, magazines, books. 3. Nonfiction movies that impart good character, good behavior, situation-specific, industry-specific civilized education. This can be on a DVD, video cassette, or relayed via TV or Internet. Q: What work do people in media do at this point? Journalist, editor, director, producer, public relations specialist, news reader, music director, printing machine operators, cinematography specialist. Q: What should media look forward to? If media improves its quality, it can replace schools, colleges and universities. Q: What should be presented on TV, Internet and movies? A: It should be based precisely on curriculum in schools, colleges, and universities. TV and movie producers: Take a school, college, or university book and make a movie or TV program out of it. Take a look at this. Catalog Q: How do you detect a false news report? A: A meeting report comes up, without prior information or planning of the meeting. The day, date, time, duration, actual participants, place, and language details aren't available. There is no independent verification of the proceedings. Q: Should you praise government if it is incompetent, came to power with fraud, has bad character, behaves badly, and inflicted intentional harms? A: No. Q: What is journalism? A: Journalism is the timely reporting of events at the local, provincial, national and international levels. Reporting involves the gathering of information through interviewing and research, the results of which are turned into a fair and balanced story for publication or for television or radio broadcast. Q: What do beginning journalists do? A: Journalists who are starting their careers normally do not do commentary or opinion pieces. Rather, they cover hard news stories such as community news, courts, crime and speeches by notable people. In broadcast, beginning journalists also may do pre-interviews and research for senior journalists. An entry-level reporter often does "general assignment" stories rather than stories for a specific beat. General assignment stories are given out to reporters by the city desk or assignment editor. Q: Is journalism for you? A: Asking yourself the questions below will help you determine whether journalism is a good career choice for you. Is it important to you to keep up with current events? Are you interested in other people’s lives? Are you able to talk to a wide variety of people? Do you work well to deadlines? Are you persistent and willing to dig for information? Have you mastered basic writing skills? ,br> About my career How did you start in journalism? Did you do any journalism training at university? How did you get your first job in journalism? What do you do now? Why should I care about this? The basics of being a journalist What does a journalist do? I've been offered a job as an editor / editorial assistant / assistant editor / editorial manager/ journalist. What would that entail? Is there a big need for journalists? How hard is it to get a job as a journalist? If I want to start as a journalist/photo journalist do I need a press card, and could you possibly tell me how I go about obtaining one? The lifestyle What is the best thing about journalism? How do you cope with deadlines? Training to be a journalist What skills do I need to be a journalist? What other skills should I acquire? How can I sharpen my writing? Should I take a course in journalism? Should I study for a degree in journalism? What about correspondance courses in journalism? What else do I need to do while I'm training? What else do I need to do while I'm training? I have to write a 750 word article on why I want to be a journalist for my college application. I need something to make my application stand out from the millions of other applications such as a snappy ending or a different way of writing it that still looks professional. Any ideas? I've got a chance to go to a conference about media careers. Should I go? I'd like to be a journalist but I'm already well established in another career. Do I have to start from scratch? Going freelance What is a freelance journalist? What's good about working freelance? What's the downside to being freelance? Should I start working freelance? How can I offer editors something unique? How can I build up a portfolio? I've had an article published but it was edited so much I hardly recognise it. Can I still include it in my portfolio? Being taken seriously is very often difficult for me once age is mentioned. I am 16 years old. What can I do about this? Where is the best opportunity to get published? How can I find new magazines to write for? How can I stop magazines stealing my ideas? How do I pitch my idea to an editor? Which comes first, pitching an idea for an interview to a magazine or seeing if the artist will give you the interview? I've been commissioned to write 1000 words. What if I run over? I've been sent a contract that demands all copyrights in my article. What should I do? How much do freelancers get paid? Should I write an article and submit it 'on spec' to a magazine to look at? Supplying photographs Promoting yourself online Any tips on setting up a website to promote myself as a freelancer? Music Journalism What's music journalism like? How can I get into music journalism? I've just been appointed music editor of our student newspaper. Will record labels send us music to review? Who should I write to to get them to send us music: the record labels or distributors? Interview technique What's different about doing an interview face to face? What will you do for the society if you are selected as a journalist in this news agency? What is so special in journalism that you want to become a journalist as well? Q: How do you establish a printing press? Q: How do you program a printing press? Q: What is involved in the process of newspaper printing? Q: What are the materials used in newspaper printing? Q: From where do you get the paper for newspaper printing? Q: What are the various sizes of newspapers? Q: Why don't you manufacture your own printing materials, including paper? Q: Why don't you recycle the papers? Q: How is Paper Recycled? Q: Can all of my recovered paper be recycled? Q: What happens to the ink once it is removed from the paper? Q: Do you need resources, partnerships, or guidance in regards to printing your own materials and recycling paper? Q: What is the latest technology available in newspaper printing? Journalism What are the admission requirements for this program? What kind of jobs can I expect to get when I graduate? Where do I go if I have questions? What type of work do people in newspaper journalism? What kind of background is important? What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in school? How do you benefit from learning from faculty who have had practical experience in the field? What other qualities and skills are valuable? Where do Journalism students get internships? What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a newspaper journalism emphasis? What are the salaries and working environment like in this field? Do I have to have a background in journalism? No, the Course is specifically structured for students with no experience in the field of journalism. In fact the College, along with most editors and publishers, welcome beginning writers. The world is constantly in need of new material and new talent. How long are the assignments? How do I become a Journalist? What is Broadcast Journalism? What is Print Journalism? How Long Does It Take To Become a Journalist? Which emphasis should I select? If you see yourself reporting, writing or editing news -- online, broadcast or print -- choose the News/Information emphasis. If you see yourself developing advertising, public relations or promotional campaigns, or working to help corporations, governments or organizations communicate, choose the Strategic Communications track. What Is Multi-Media Journalism? Start writing. If you aren’t writing stories, reviews, match reports or features already, then make a start. And do it now. There’s no time like the present. You should keep everything you have written, particularly anything which has been published or aired in any format and start to develop a portfolio. There are a number of opportunities for freelance journalists to make their mark. You could write for a school or university paper. You could send your work into websites covering sports, music or a particular community. However, if you are considering making a profession out of journalism, you need to acquire professional skills and recognised qualifications. You can learn these skills as part of degree courses at BA and MA level, but you can also take the country's most highly regarded qualifications here with us at Up To Speed. On our accredited course you take external exams set and marked by the National Council for the Training of Journalists. What is Broadcast Journalism? Broadcast journalism is a hugely rewarding, exciting and demanding round-the-clock career. News can happen any time, any place, live on air. Reporters and presenters tell huge numbers of people about something which is happening now in their back yard or on the other side of the planet. Producers and editors make split-second decisions while millions of people are watching or listening. But sometimes broadcast journalists have to work long and hard to find and explain stories, which are destined to disappear into the ether after their appearance on your radio, television, computer, or mobile phone. The industry needs performers, but it also needs writers and thinkers. It needs people who are prepared to spend minutes crafting scripts which will be read out in seconds. At Up To Speed you can learn Video Journalism and also audio skills. We also teach you how to find, research, write and produce news. Our NCTJ qualifications are highly sought after in Broadcast Journalism. Television journalism The television journalists who read the news are referred to as presenters, newsreaders, newscasters, or anchors. Nearly all presenters have worked as television reporters or journalists. Their job is to read out scripts and to conduct live interviews. The words for their scripts scroll down on the front of the cameras they are looking into. It may sound like an easy job, but looking, and sounding, natural on camera while you have people shouting instructions into a hidden earpiece can be surprisingly difficult. The television journalists who you see on screen talking about individual stories are known as reporters and sometimes have other titles such as Political Correspondent, or Foreign Editor. Their job is to find stories, to interview people and to work with camera crews and picture editors to produce video news pieces known as VTs, VTRs or packages. It is the reporter’s job to suggest images for the story and to write and voice the script to go with the finished package. Reporters also work live on air, sometimes carrying out interviews and sometimes being interviewed by presenters about their story. There are also television journalists who you do not usually see on screen. A group of producers, led by an Editor, work in teams to put together news programmes. These teams decide the running order - the order in which the stories should be presented - and also how much time should be given to each reporter or package in their programme. Careful planning and organisation is also required in television news. There are journalists called News Editors, news organisers, or fixers who ensure the smooth running of the operation. Many television news organisations employ video journalists. VJs film and edit their own stories. Most young journalists entering the industry are now expected to have these skills. In the UK, most national television journalists work for the BBC, Sky News, ITV News, Channel 4 News, or GMTV. Regional journalists work for either the BBC or TV. Senior editors who have run all the major television news organisations have started on NCTJ courses themselves and so they value the skills we teach you at Up To Speed. Radio Journalism As with their colleagues in television, there are some radio journalists who are in front of the microphone and some who work in the newsroom, but do not broadcast. In larger radio newsrooms, teams of producers, reporters and editors will work together to produce programmes. However, many small radio stations, particularly FM independent stations, have small teams of reporters who produce their own programmes and read the news. Radio reporters are expected to work live on air and to edit interviews together to form packages. And as with television, a way with words is essential. A good radio reporter can use words and recorded sound to paint a vivid mental picture for their listeners. Radio journalists work for the BBC on its four FM stations, on its AM station Five Live and for its network of local radio stations. There is one national commercial FM station, Classic FM and two national AM stations, Virgin and talkSPORT. There are also 326 full-time commercial local radio stations. The advent of digital audio broadcast, or DAB radio, has seen the BBC develop 11 UK-wide radio stations and there are 46 local DAB services around the country. Bi-Media and Multi-Media Journalism Traditionally, most broadcast journalists either worked for radio or television, and while this is still the case in some sectors, and for some individuals, many broadcast journalists are expected to be able to work for both radio and television. This is known as bi-media reporting. In the BBC, correspondents are required to produce reports for television, radio and the BBC news website. This is known as multi-media reporting. And with increased access to video and podcasting on newspaper and magazine websites, broadcast journalism skills are increasingly valuable for journalists working in those areas. Conversely, many journalists working in radio and television will have a background in print media. This overlapping of skills in different sectors of the industry is known as convergence. If you are considering a career in broadcast journalism, then you may well find that learning some print journalism skills will help you to land a job and to move around within the industry. You can learn those skills at Up To Speed and our latest courses provide you with a grounding in both print and broadcast enabling you to work in any news environment. What is Print Journalism? There is nothing quite like seeing your name in print, on the front page or cover, and preferably under a banner headline. And to add real spice to the experience, the story should be one you have found on your own initiative, or through a special contact and which no other newspaper or magazine is carrying. Reporters dream of these “scoops” or of hearing the words, “hold the front page” shouted across the newsroom, as their sensational story is finished just before the deadline. It is a moment of glory to be cherished and it should make up for all the unanswered calls, brick walls and closed doors every reporter has to negotiate at some time in their career in print. In newspapers, these opportunities for glory come every day or sometimes every week. In magazines, you may have to hang on for a week or a month between issues, but for many magazine journalists, the sight of a well-crafted piece gracing glossy pages is well worth the wait. Reporters writing for newspapers and magazines are either assigned to stories, or they come up with their own ideas or leads. Freelance reporters, sometimes working for independent press agencies, pitch story ideas to magazine commissioning editors and newspaper news desks. In both newspapers and magazines, stories produced by reporters are submitted to a team of sub-editors, who work on each story before it appears in print. Sub-editors check the story for accuracy, for grammar and punctuation and for length. On some occasions a sub-editor will make significant changes to the way a story is written and on other occasions the editor may decide that there is only room in the next edition for a much shorter version of the article. Sub-editors also have to decide where the article will sit on the page and to ensure that it fits in the assigned space. In both newspapers and magazines the role also includes writing and selection of headlines, deciding on whether the story deserves a by-line and page design. On newspapers, the subs’ desk is run by the Chief Sub while the team of reporters and writers work under the News Editor, Sports Editor, Foreign Editor or Features Editor. The Chief Sub and the section editors all report to the Editor, who has the final say in deciding on the front page lead story and the distribution of other stories in the newspaper. On larger magazines, section heads typically cover specialist areas such as Health or Beauty and can be in charge of commissioning regular features, subbing them and designing their pages in the magazine. There are specialist trade titles, consumer magazines aimed at shoppers in particular supermarkets, or magazines aimed at train and air passengers. If you are considering a career in magazine journalism it can often be a good idea to consider some of the less well-known titles, or to find a niche market that interests you. If you are starting out in journalism, you can never have too many skills. And there is nowhere better to learn all those skills than here at Up To Speed where we offer the country’s first fast-track course covering both new and traditional media. How Long Does It Take To Become A Journalist? What type of work do people in newspaper journalism? What type of hands-on experience might I get while I'm in school? How do you benefit from learning from faculty who have had practical experience in the field? What other qualities and skills are valuable? Newspaper Journalism Faculty Where do Missouri Journalism students get internships? "Our students usually have had at least one internship by the time they graduate. These have been in news reporting, producing, advertising, photography, public relations, magazine writing, event planning, design and much more. The internships are in major U.S. cities as well as in smaller communities, representing the wide range of interests of our students, who, incidentally, come from every state in the nation and from more than 30 countries. You might want to check out a list of almost 300 student internships at media outlets, agencies and other organizations where our students have worked in recent years." Phou Sengsavanh Career Center Phou Sengsavanh What kind of jobs are graduates getting with a newspaper journalism emphasis? What is one tip you would give incoming students about this sequence? http://www.commoninterviewquestions.org/journalist-interview-questions/ http://www.journalismcareers.com/articles/beingatvreporter.shtml http://www.ncpp.org/?q=node/4 |