The field of journalism has been revamped to stay up to date with the digital world. This willingness and drive to grow, learn, question, adapt, expand and emerge are also important for prospective journalism students and professionals. Once a dying field has begun to get more important and has developed over the years. From print to broadcast journalism, many kids and many people in today's society are journalists by default. Going to school for journalism is a different thing. Here’s a day in the life of a journalism major.
In most cases, journalism majors wake up relatively early to watch the morning news. The way the news is set up these days, not too many are reliable, you have to watch the local news, CNN, FOX and probably MNBC.
After you listen to all the wrong that is going on in today’s society. You might have an article to finalize for a class or some paper due that you put off from the night before. In a given week, we probably write about 5-10 articles for journalism classes alone.
Now it’s time to start getting ready for class, before class you pick up "The New York Times" somewhere on campus to stay updated. In most scenarios, you will hear about the same thing in all the journalism classes you have in that day at the beginning of class. Usually, a class discussion will follow, to talk about what has happened and what goes on in the media. Donald Trump surely has got everyone talking about “fake news”.
After your 3rd journalism class of the day you are finished, but it doesn’t end there because more articles need to be written. You always have to catch the evening news as well, so it’s back to CNN, Fox and the local news. In addition to watching the news, social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook have become great sources of information.
Once we go over our assignment, we have to conduct in-depth research into the story. This process can be the hardest, it includes finding potential sources, fact-checking all storylines, dates, and other important pieces of information. Most people will save the going out and interviewing people for the following day and some like to get it out the way early.
After researching the story and conducting interviews, journalists spend time identifying the key points of the story and creating a structure for it. They then use the information they’ve gathered to add detail and color to the story and to make it as informative as possible before sending it to an editor for review and publication.
To end off the day, you have to do what all everybody loves to do; watch the nightly news.
