Before taking this course I thought
a journalist was more of someone who just wrote for newspapers and news
stories. I thought the purpose of
journalism was letting people know about current events. Previous to taking this course I thought
journalist just had to just be factual as a part of their ethics. I thought the difference between opinion writing
and impartial reporting was that opinion writing was using your opinion and
impartial reporting was just based on facts.
I now realize that there is a lot more to it. The huge difference is that news sources
won’t be considered reliable with the use of opinion writing. Yes, I was interested in Journalism as a
career before this course, because I knew that it sounded really interesting
and I enjoy revising and writing articles.
In my mind the definition of a
journalist is someone who informs people about what is going on around the
world. Whether it is through a written
article or through the news, radio, or internet. I think that the purpose of journalism is to
keep people informed about current events.
I think that journalistic ethics consist of being impartial, telling
exactly what happened without altering details, showing both sides of an issue,
and being a reliable source. This is
different then what I used to think by the fact that I didn’t think it was as
important to show both sides of an issue.
Impartial reporting is simply only reporting reliable facts and
details. Opinion writing is
writing/reporting about your personal thoughts and opinions. I have always thought that this was the
difference between impartial reporting and opinion writing. Yes I am interested in journalism as a
career, because I feel that I would really enjoy getting to be a leader and
seeing the outcome of all of my hard work.
I feel that the future for journalism is that articles will come out
even faster, and that new machines will be able to detect any opinionated words
used in an article.
