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Any journalistfags here??

How did you get involved in it and what are its ups and downs?

>> No.1569045

I 'compliment' my income from the grocery store by writing reviews, articles, etc for local newspaper and for a few websites. Also, the newspaper pays me to 'write to the editor' sometimes to comment just to fill up a little bit of space on page 5 or whatever.
Ups: wear what you want, choose your own hours, etc.
Downs: inconsistent workload, sometimes its hard to find something to write about...

>> No.1569072

>>1569045
I'd like to be that sort of journalist.

How do I get to do that?

>> No.1569078

>>1567385

Go to Columbia university, get a M.S or M.A in journalism, get an internship and enjoy your career as a journalist.

>> No.1569094

>>1569078
I meant, how do I do that without all the work?

>> No.1569105

>>1569094

lol no

>> No.1569113

>>1569094
The society of instant retributions strikes again

>> No.1569143

>>1569105
Oh here we go

Submit to New Yorker
>http://www.newyorker.com/contact/contactus

Submit to Harper's
>http://harpers.org/harpers/submissions

Duotrope
>for the rest

>> No.1569171

Contribute to a local paper and work your way up from there.

It can be done.

>> No.1569173

ups - a feeling of awesomeness seeing your work get published

downs - full to the brim of backstabbing cunts trying to push you out the door to advance their own careers

>> No.1569268
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1569268

i studied journalism up to the point where one of the students asked about journalistic ethics.

"You poor, sad BASTARDS!" our teacher sneered.

fuck this shit. i'm working in a plastics factory now. i may be poisoning the environment but at least i'm not chasing people who just lost a child to a murdering rapist and asking the parents "how do you feel?"

pic related, it's one of the few journalists i ever respected.

>> No.1569280

I work at my university newspaper and I'm having a blast. I decided I wanted to be a journalist after watching and reading a lot of Hitchens, OP, so maybe we have that in common. I want to be a war correspondent in the future, and I thought working at the student rag would be a good start.

Ups?
Got to interview a former Congresswoman! (And talked to her off the record about her work trying to stop the Turkish occupation of Cyprus.)

Downs?
None so far!

>> No.1569286

I plan on majoring in journalism next year.
I am well aware I probably won't get much out of it.