Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Who is Journalism?


Reporters, Editors, Photographers, Writers are all apart of Journalism. Consisting of gathering information to create a story for the public. The question today for many writers are blogger's the new journalist? The answer is NO, because a blogger may report about an event in the news, but does not have the democracy and principles that a journalist applies to each news story that a blogger typically doesn't do. The articles are more opinion based on facts, as for journalist their articles are based on sources and data for more of the ethical approach to a news article that usually only journalist put in their news stories.

What is Journalism?

Journalism is news worthy information gathered by news reporters taken by human sources, data, and other facts of information to compile to create a story. Getting both sides of a story, is the key in journalism to not be bias to either side. It is the reader's job to have opinion favoring either side, the journalist is to state the facts and quotes given by sources involved in the story. The mission of journalism, is for the people to have fast accurate reliable news to rely on to make governing self decision making opinion, and not based on others opinions or ideas.