journalism

Professional Writing?

What is it like to be a professional writer? I enjoy writing a lot, but I don't know if I could do it as a profession. And even if I could I wouldn't know where to begin. Any thoughts?

Journalists - Responsible observers of the Worlds events, or pariahs?

Responding to another post today got me wondering just what the general view is of journalists. There have been many great ones, even Churchill was one, but there are also those that appear to revel...

Do you feel that Today's Journalists have forgotten the "Ethics" of Journalism?

Today every where either in News Papers or on TV channels we are forcefully subjected to crime scenes which are very gruesome, cruel and some times make one sick! I agree that the journalists job is...

DO Journalism and Politcs mix?

Do Journalists have the duty OR the right to question authority? Is the journalist's job to present the facts, whatever that means, and just the facts, and to remain as non partisan as possible or...

Pen is mightier than the sword

Was attending a function to facilitate journalist. Dr Abudl Kalam, ex President of India was also present. What he said was that journalism if a very powerful tool and what journalist write today on...

Unwritten rules of radio and TV journalism

After moments of painstaking research I have deduced the unspoken rules of journalism. Generally, if talking to a man about a serious issue a journalist may try and cross-examine them and pull them...

Guiding Principles for Journalists

Here are some of the guiding principles for journalists that I have jot down when I attended our campus journalism workshop. I hope this could be of great help to others. 1. Seek truth and report...

Journalism the way u think???

Certain news items appearing in the Newspaper,some are called Main Story, how news can become story. What is story? It contains all type of ingredients make it a fullfledged story.If we left out...

Is there any magazine/journal in US which

caters at least 50% of its space to the problems of the poor and the lower middle class. The problems of food scarcity, clothing, shelterlessness and old age orphanhood. I am asking because, every...