Journalism & Mass Communication – The Most Attractive Field Of Today
// August 23rd, 2007 // Media
Now-a-days, Mass Communication is the most attracting field in the young people because it offers various career options in several kinds of Medias for instance, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, public relations, advertisements etc. It comprises of closely related fields of communication, advertisement and public relations. This program is the study of mass media that includes all types of medium used to convey the information to the audience.
Mass communication is a vast field that many areas in it. Some of its areas are discussed as under: -
1) Print Journalism: – One of the oldest forms of journalism is Print Journalism. This is basically collecting and editing of news for the presentation via media. Newspapers and magazines are the major sources of news and information throughout the world. Today, newspapers and magazines cover numerous specialized sections such as political events, business news, leisure, cinema, career, health and much more.
2) Electronic Journalism : – Electronic Journalism offers for professional qualified aspirants career opportunities for example, direction, production, camera, graphics, editing, sound, program research, script writing etc. It also affects the lifestyles and thoughts of masses. In Electronic Journalism, there are mainly three areas i.e. hardcore news, business and sports news and entertainment news. Students can get into one of these three areas with their personal interest and caliber.
3) Radio Broadcasting: – In radio broadcasting, an individual can have various career opportunities as a sound engineer, a station engineer, a radio jockey and a radio producer. The minimum qualification in this industry is a bachelor’s degree. People, who are interested in the creative force, can become a radio producer. The main responsibility of radio producer is the direct the show and put together all the elements more effectively and content structure in a good manner.
Except this, Mass communication brings lots of job opportunities for e.g. documentary and promotional films, television sales and content production, crowd coordinators, artist consultant, stylist or costume designer and many more. Sharda Group of Institutions also brings Journalism and Mass communication course for the students. This is NBA accredited institute and is among the top institutes of India. It delivers best education to its students under the proper guidance of well experienced faculty members.
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The Department of Mass Communication at Southeast Missouri State University boasts one of only 106 mass communication programs nationwide that are fully accredited. Students produce several monthly television and radio shows for the University and local organizations in a hands-on learning environment. Southeast professors work closely with students to teach creative, organizational and technical skills required to excel in the mass communications field.
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At my school the core classes for a journalism degree are:
Introduction to mass media
Aural & visual communication
Writing for the media
Advertising principles
Communication law
Communication & media research
After those six classes, you choose a specialization which add more classes for your graduation check list.
Depending on what school you go to this list can become more extensive. Schools may also offer different options within their journalism program; these can include (but not limited to) writing, photojournalism, graphic design, public relations, advertising, etc. The big lessons for journalism are AP style and how to construct a good news story or take a good news photo.
I would suggest figuring out what interests you in journalism (writing, photos, etc.) and then researching schools that give you a well-rounded education for that specialization. Just about every university is going to have a journalism program. Choosing a school comes down to what quality of education you want and how much you are willing to pay for that education.
I looked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2006-07 and it confirmed my impressions
1. The outlook for most writing and editing jobs is expected to be competitive because many people are attracted to the occupation.
2. Talented writers who can handle highly specialized scientific or technical subjects have an advantage
3. You more likely make more money appling you writing skills if you combine it with knowledge of some other field, for example, Public Relations Specialists, who combine a college degree in public relations, journalism, or another communications-related field with a public relations internship or other related work experience tend to make better money than a typical journalist..
By the way, according the BLS,
Salaries for news analysts, reporters, and correspondents vary widely. Median annual earnings of reporters and correspondents were $31,320 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $22,900 and $47,860. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $18,470, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $68,250. Median annual earnings of reporters and correspondents were $30,070 in newspaper, periodical, book, and directory publishers and $34,050 in radio and television broadcasting.
Median annual earnings of broadcast news analysts were $36,980 in May 2004. The middle 50 percent earned between $25,560 and $68,440. The lowest 10 percent earned less than $19,040, and the highest 10 percent earned more than $122,800. Median annual earnings of broadcast news analysts were $37,840 in radio and television broadcasting.
Start a fashion blog and Twitter. New media is all the rage these days, and social media is a free way to get experience. Make sure you post at least once a day to your blog and more often to Twitter. Try to play with video and photo elements, too, as today's journalists need multimedia experience. Consider taking a course in web design while you are still in school.
Other than that, you must have writing samples, so write for anywhere you can get published. Look for local freelancing opportunities on the web and in print. Does a community paper have a fashion/feature/or lifestyle section? Is there a local religious paper? An weekly art magazine? A free community shopper? Lots of places will take young journalists looking to write for free or low cost, and you'll get your name in print. The more clips, and the better they are, the more opportunities you'll get.
And most importantly, you also need to intern, and it should be in fashion, if that's where you want to end up, even if it is unpaid. These jobs are hard to come by, so be ready for stiff competition. Good luck!
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Her biggest concern is to start to build her portfolio. Therefore, she wants to be able to show clips of things that she has written. This can include excerpts from her blog, letters to the editors at her favorite magazines, etc.
They understand that she has limited experience but she wants to be able to show a variety of different areas: copy writing, news clips, full lenght articles, short articles. Anything she may have writtern in high school can be added to her portfolio. Place them in a nice binder or portfolio.
She can intern with a PR firm, graphic artist, local radio station who may need a copy writer. There are a lot of newsletters and local papers that accept writing submissions.
Offer to write articles for her church paper or anyone who will let her write.
Journalism covers a lot of areas and she will want to explore narrowing down her focus over the summer so when they ask her want she intends to do with a Journalism degree, she can give direct answers. Best wishes to your friend!
Journalists often make good tech writers because they try to write with the user in mind and are less prone to use tech jargon. A good technical writer knows how to research thoroughly, how to interview people to tease out the information needed, and how to put this all together in a document or other materials for users.
Wikipedia has a nice description of technical writing, so you can understand the difference with journalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_writing
If you work at a small company, is there any technical writing there you can do now? For instance, you say you are very web savvy — are your fellow reporters and other staff members? If not, could you write a set of troubleshooting guides or a short tutorial that would help?
Also, consider volunteering in order to get practical experience and build up your technical writing portfolio. Lots of nonprofits need help with writing up procedures (they often have procedures, but they aren't documented), annual reports, getting-started guides for new volunteers, film or video scripts, tailored reference documents, tutorials and user guides for clients, etc.
In the US
Columbia in NYC
Syracuse
U of Missouri at Columbia
And my favorite.
William Paterson College of NJ in Wayne.
1. It started the Spanish American war, that was the biggie… but it influenced politics through out, changed policy, and completely changed the newspaper business. As you know by now, a good press, with good information is key to having a good democracy, but this did not happen while yellow journalism was going down and the public was lead to believe what the newspapers lead them to believe… same as it ever was I guess, but there is something sinister about yellow journalism vs "objective" journalism (I put "objective in quotes b/c nothing is truely objective, but you can get close.). Yellow Journalism tends to be more of a lap dog than a watch dog, and if it is a watch dog its drumming up paranoia about the opposition…
2. yeah. Cable News; especially FOXNews, Tabloids, some documentaries, some blogs. A good example is the second Iraq War. That was a PR stunt fr War which the newspaper was more of a lad dog than a watch dog. When the "pundits" went on TV debating the war there was always 2 fr the war and 1 against or 3 fr and 2 against… a good doc about it is "OutFoxed", PBS also had one about where Phil Donahue was complaining about this, the state dept told MSNBC he had to have a 2:1 ration and couldn't ask hard questions and they went with it.
that should be enough to start on… search these things fr sources.
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