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Reach The Opportunity For Being Public Journalist
Reach The Opportunity For Being Public Journalist
Journalist is a job opened to everyone from every major. Nowadays, however, journalism does not only belong to them whom related to certain news institution. Anyone can reportage and write news, though does not have legal title as journalist. Now, there are so many sites in the internet opening an opportunity for being citizen journalist. Therefore, if you are interested in journalism but do not want to be duty-bound in permanent job as journalist; you can use those sites for citizen journalist to develop your interest in journalism.
If you find interesting places or events to be news object, do not hesitate to write it.
Before start writing, if it is possible, do a simple reportage. You can ask questions to any related resources. Asking questions, in journalism called an interview, does not have to be with formal language as if it is an interrogation. Try to find the right time, talk in a polite way, and create a friendly climate so the resources will be more open to tell you what you want. Sometime I also experience difficulty when I had to do an interview with people who are introvert and do not like to get many questions. However, that is the key, being polite and having ability to built friendliness with the resources.
The purpose of this reportage is to get data directly from the resources. Nevertheless, this is optional if you only want to write your own opinion or find other references or data from other sources but do not want to involve others that can be your resources.
write you news in the right pattern that can be understood easily and appropriate with the principle of language. You do not have to write it in a formal language that can make the readers feel bored. It ought to write it in a feature language style. Feature is a form of news writing in an interesting style, light, and informative, just like a story teller tells something interesting. This, usually, is used to write news about human interest or others’ humanity story.
You can be a successful citizen journalist. Even though, your news looks very simple, but, perhaps, that news actually has deep and important meaning for many people to read. Then, start to write, because, perhaps, you can create a positive changes for someone or, perhaps, the world only with a writing.
