During Josh Awtry’s presentation, being the executive editor of the Asheville Citizen- Times, he discussed how an individual who’s inspired to be a reporter must compose his or her cleverness with certain writing skills. A reporter should be able to write words and construct a piece without many grammatical errors or punctuation errors. He also mentions that they should desire curiosity. A reporter must be willing to find out why something like this occurs and how can I educate the public about it. Reporters are constantly looking for corruption and their job is to shine light on things that someone usually wouldn’t shine light on. Another skill a reporter should have is to be able to do a little of everything. Reporters should know
