Journalism

An important profession.
Can sink in low's and go to height's.
I like Kapuscinski and poetic documentaries.

majoring in journalism. There can be incredible examples of well written work, but we are in a time of over saturation. Most journalists spend more time on the headline than the actual article itself.

>>9569449
I worked in a journalists office for a month once and it was a bad experience.
My head supervisor did not write anything, he just got "connected", while I was literally copy pasting articles from the main source or translating foreign articles, amend them, and he would make amendments and sign them by his name.
The only people actually working was a nice old guy who actually wrote his articles, most in there made fun of him, and the technician. The rest spent most hours of the day chatting about nightclubs, facebook etc.
The fact that right below the building shit was actiually going on, people were gathering electronicsand trash in trolleys etc did not help at all.
Bad experience...
I had another job in the evening as a waiter...
I almost got crazy by the contrasts...

>>9569586
>The only people actually working was a nice old guy who actually wrote his articles, most in there made fun of him,
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>What does /lit/ think of journalism?
Fake News!

>>9569592
It was fucking sickening...
I met another journalist in another place, a half mad woman, very profficient with.drugs and travelling and "hood" wisdom. She was what she was but she, I dont know how to put it, respected people...
The people in that office made me sick...

>>9569608
I think you use too many ellipsis.

>>9569649
I've been told.
Does it look that bad?

>>9569505
>studying for a job in a dying market
Might as well study something patrician like history, philosophy or sinology

>>9569678
I really want to bring back patrician journalism though. call me optimistic i guess

>>9569449
Almost all writing is for people who couldn't do the thing they write about. The only writing worth shit is technical information and poetry.

>>9569449
Journalism is to Literature what cleaning the toilets is to successfull financial trading. That is to say, a shitty job every actual freethinker hates because of how sneaky and annoying it is. The comparison may seem contradictory, because of course you're going to make much more money in journalism than in literature (actually, you're not going to make a single penny with books), but the trouble and boredom you have to stand in journalism make it seem more like a toilet-cleaner tier job, and, believe me, it's not worthwhile. Journalism is servitude. You almost never write about what interests you, unless you're a blogger or a freelancer -- but in that case you don't earn money. All in all, I think you can enjoy being a journalist and living off it only if you wholeheartedly LOVE journalism. Otherwise, especially if you like books, REAL literature, poetry (I see you have a nice name over there, OP), you can't be a journalist.
P.S. Journalist =/= columnist or critic.

t. guy who has experience in journalism.

>>9569663
A little bit.
I advocate not using any punctuation at all at the end of sentences if you really want to convey suspension (obviously in informal contexts like chats or imageboards or forums). You may use ellipsis when you are omitting information or implying something.

>>9569798
Thank you.
Bad habit.