ABC’s Elaine Ford has explained to the QUT
Online Journalism class that a journalist must be multi skilled and able to produce
news over multiple formats. This means that a journalist must be skilled in written,
spoken and visual work.
The wide array of necessary skills provides an exciting prospect as the
work that I may be doing will change every hour. A lot of people look for a job
that offers variety in the tasks that they have to complete, myself included. Elaine has
explained and displayed how varied a journalist’s life may be.
A journalist's day could be as busy as three radio crosses in the morning, an updated story to be posted during the day, a radio feature in the afternoon and then a live cross to the nightly news.
Intimidating,
yes, but also enticing. Being able to break and share news across so many
different formats is something that I see as very exciting. I consider myself very lucky to go to a university where I am taught all these skills that will be able to hopefully make me the best journalist possible.
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