Okay so I'm a college student and recently changed my major to Journalism. Now I haven't really touched the Journalism scene since I was in high school where, for a short time, I was an editor for my school's newspaper. And, you know, I loved it! It was fun, I wrote articles for it, drew art for it and overall, just had a great time and had at a time considered majoring Journalism upon graduation but I decided on Art, then English, then Art again and then to Sociology/Child Development in a very short time and so like, it's been a while since I've touched anything journalism related in terms of being a part of the community. With that said, I was wondering if anyone currently majoring in Journalism or who has Journalism degrees has any advice? Not about anything in particular just anything, things I should or at least be aware of, the ups and downs, just anything really. Thank you! :>
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If you're going to pursue journalism as a career, do what you can to work with your school news outlets and get internships while you're still in school.
work with your school's publication(s) as much as you can for as long as you can.
get published clips before you graduate and you'll be way ahead of most of your peers.
More skills= better.
Be a reporter who can take damn good photos and video. Be an editor who can do basic page design.