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News Anchor
So I have been thinking a lot about college lately and I have been set on being a news girl. cute right? ha right. Anyways, what would be some good things to look into before college like working for my schools newspaper right? I would really appreciate some other ideas ! thanks
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First of all can you write newspaper quality pieces? If you have that ability now you can call up your local paper. I'm talking the free one that usually arrives with tons of flyers.
Tell them that you would like to work non-paid as a freelancer or in the newsroom writing. If they think you're good enough they will assign articles for you. How do I know? I'm a journalist and that's how I started out.
You should also look to professional web sites and e-zines to see if you can write for them. Teen Ink www.teenink.com is completely written by teens. Also check out Young People's Press www.ypp.net they print articles in e-zines, newspapers, online written by people 14-24.
Another thing you can do is phone a newspaper editor for the major dailies or a TV station and ask if they allow students to job shadow their reporters or do ride alongs to the scene of a story to see how they cover different situations.
The school newspaper is a good idea as is the yearbook. The yearbook teaches you about photo journalism and editing as would the paper. as far as doing announcement goes it's good for your voice but not much else journalistically.
You might also want to look into www.teentalknetwork.com which does radio shows hosted by teens. See if they have anything open to you.
You need to constantly be reading newspapers and practising your writing. Get ahold of grammar books and those on writing properly and well and study them religiously. It will prepare you for later on.
When it comes to college or university if you call the program head of a print journalism or broadcast journalism school and explain that you aren't sure of which school you want to go to but are interested in their program they almost always allow you to sit in on a class and do a tour of the facilities they have.
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Yes. Definitely become involved in your school's newspaper. Usually to do that you have to take some type of Journalism class- which is actually a really interesting class because the rules are continuously changing =].
Also try to get involved in the announcements somehow. Like the announcements at my school are broadcast to everyone on the TVs, and it's through a TV Broadcast class. If something like that is at your school, get involved in that.
Also, if your town/city has a newspaper, send in articles all of the time about sporting events, etc.
Basically get involved in anything dealing with Journalism.
Talk to your counselor- they would know more than me ;]
--Jack
(16/m)
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