Please Help

* Do not feel as though you have to major in journalism in college.

* Learn everything you can. Writing, reporting, editing, Web design/programming, video, audio, print page design. Believe me, if you're skilled in even half of those, especially Web stuff, you'll get hired in about two seconds after graduation.

* Never believe a story is beneath you. At this stage, every story is experience.

Good luck.

 

I'm an actual college student thinking about entering the business. I promise. I saw this web site on a blog and thought some of you could help me out. I have definitely learend a lot just from your posts. Your constructive criticism has helped and now I am going to attempt to watch my grammar on message boards. I realize that I am almost certainly not ever appearing on ESPN and will start at the bottom for some rural newspaper covering the prep sports that the journalists who have seniority do not want to cover. Creative Writing was my favorite subject in high school, but I firmly believe that I have always wanted to enter this business due to my love of sports and not because my love of writing. However, I was one of the few students who was ecstatic when the teacher would assign a writing assignment in high school. I enjoy writing. I just enjoy sports more.

 

Creative writing is good. Learning how to handle piecemeal or repetitive writing, how to write two grafs on 30 different basketball games different ways is better.
Jones is right... love words, not sports.

 

Best advice on this thread.

 

As much as I wish this were true, at most of my stops, exactly the opposite is the case.

 

Who are you, Martin Luther King?

Please, don't firmly believe. Simply believing will suffice.

 

work real hard. you will become a columnist at a large metro writing about the sport of your choice.

 

Tom, I don't know why that hit me as really funny. Good one.

 

I'm typing with a cast on. Count the errors.

 

Oh, and in newpapering, short paragraphs are the rule.

And if you are an actual college student thinking about entering the business, you need to get busy trying to drum up internships in or around the business.

 

Yeah, but the cast is on your foot....

 

i was going to work in a whole thing about trenton, but i decided not to ... but wait ...