Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Commitment to Journalism

I definitely plan to continue being involved in journalism, and hopefully transitioning along with it as it adopts new forms for new times. Within the context of education, I hope to take advanced newswriting, feature writing, and advanced creative nonfiction writing.
I have thoroughly enjoyed reading the NY Times so far this semester, and hope to continue reading a newspaper regularly. It seems that journalism has to continue in some form. When I watch the news on TV, they often reference newspapers in theirs ("The Washington Post reported today..."). Despite the time advantage that TV admittedly has, newspapers are still the best source for solid investigative and in-depth reporting. Newspapers seem to be looking into things long before it ever gets on the radar of CNN, for example.
Ideally, journalism and writing will factor in some way with the career I eventually get. I hope to combine this with my major to give myself a self-designed background in environmental journalism. I'm thinking for my required environmental conservation internship of trying to get a job with a environmental or science related magazine.
Basically, I hope to be playing some part in the future of journalism.

1 comment:

  1. Thomas,

    Good luck with that. We need people willing to experiment with new methods of covering the world's most important beat.

    David Poulson
    Knight Center for Environmental Journalism
    Michigan State University
    http://CoverThePlanet.org

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