Why Journalism?
Many misinterpret why I want to be a journalist (and chose a journalism major). Some ask me if it is solely for the fun of writing about gossip or being the first to know the latest information on all world news, but this is not the case for me. Journalism feels like an outlet for me.
I chose this path because for as long as I can remember my greatest passion was writing. It did not matter what I was writing about, I just loved it. With that being said though, my favorite prompts in school were always the subjects about real life events. I thought it was so interesting being able to inform the world (or my classmates) of a certain topic in- depth and be able to write about it the way that I felt was the most effective for an audience. I knew from then on I wanted to be the person who wrote stories that truly impacted people. I’ve never been one to dwell on gossip of any kind, and though this is part of being a journalist depending on the stories I must report, my goal is to have a greater impact than this. Not only do I love the writing aspect of journalism, I also love the editing aspect. I grew up reading a full book every two days and then moving to the next. In elementary school all the way through high school and even first-year of college I was all of my friends’ personal editors on each and every paper, sometimes prioritizing their edits over my own because of how much fun I had editing.
So with this journalism major, I hope to make it into the journalism field where I can work my way up from writer, editor, to publisher and maybe even do them all simultaneously (though I know this is a harder task than I am leading it to be). But overall, every day all my life I have been told to do a job that I love when I get older and not to base it off of how much money I would make, and I know how strongly committed I am to this subject as a whole.
