Journalist

Anonymous sources are becoming increasingly common in the world of journalism. Even major international news reporting agencies have come to rely on them over the years. Anonymity can affect a story's credibility, but sometimes it is only through unnamed sources that valuable information can be obtained. A good example of this scenario can be found in the film, ‘All The President’s Men’, about the Watergate Scandal. I personally think that without anonymous sources, there would have been no…

However, photographs of the event prove that the soldier was wearing a helmet, even though all the journalist could see, even with evidence to contradict it, twenty seven years later was still a soldier in a red beret. This example is used to try to discredit the memory of the human mind, but let me challenge the author to think about a different aspect…

Catherine Rampell, a respected journalist for The Washington Post, wrote an article titled, “Be Pretty, But Not Too Pretty: Why Women Can’t Just Win.” This article talks about how women in the work place are ridiculed for how they look and how they act in corporate and political America. Women are struck with different stereotypes in the work place on a daily basis. Rampell gives examples of real life experiences with people in politics such as Hilary Clinton and Sarah Palin; both of them have…

Mario Vargas Llosa has done and accomplished many things throughout his life. Not only was he a successful writer, he was also a college professor, journalist, essayist, and a politician. Before he started writing novels and short stories, he was a Spanish teacher in France, a journalist as a student for La Industria, he even became a broadcaster on the radio at some point. He also ran for President of Peru. It seems that he was always doing something throughout his life. He has written numerous…

news agencies, and more cat videos than some would like to believe. Furthermore, with the prevalence of the Internet in everyday life, it is mind-boggling how much information is constantly being created and processed everyday. The main issue that journalists face is being able to cut through the clutter so their work can be acknowledged. However the question of where an individual can exercise their right to free speech and when individuals use the right to free expression as an excuse for…

police officers since as early as 2009 (Morelli 1). Not only does the press only write over certain events, but they also tend to over dramatize these events. It is also shown that, more times than not, a journalist will only interview people with the same opinions as them. Major journalists also tend to not interview any type of personnel in the law enforcement. This is considered a problem because these major media sources play a significant role in how citizens form their opinions over…

and sentence structure. 19. You are a journalist writing for the New York Gazette following the Civil War and you are assigned to write about the lives of the former slaves in the state of Georgia. Please write in details the economic and the social and the political situations being faced by the former slaves. Please give examples of each of the categories mentioned and explain to the reader in the views of a journalist. 20. You are the same journalist as the above question and are assigned…

Growing up in the 1940’s was tough for everyone. Having a father that you idolized as a journalist who later got drafted into World War 2, was not an easy task. Michael Crichton respected all over the world and viewed as one of the greatest writers had a unique childhood. 6 foot 3 inches and ill his whole childhood made Crichton to stand out (Crichton, Michael). Due to spending most of his time at home, Crichton began exploration into the field of science and journalism, following in his…

Through likes and shares, it can popularize a certain content. With that, it simply disseminates news information to Facebook users. It was also mentioned in The Double Edge Sword: The Effects of Journalists’ Social Media Activities on Audience Perceptions of Journalists and Their New Products that “social media users experience news as not just mass communication but ‘masspersonal’ communication ” (O’Sullivan,2005,p.3) which forms interpersonal relationships through news sources…

and not many people believed in them as a company, and they had to lay people off; however, they rose above and beyond to make their paper the way it is today. For example, one of the struggles they went through was credibility. They had two journalists by the names of Judith Miller and Jason Blair that ruined their trust with the public. Judith Miller was an unreliable reporter because she lied about some of the reports she made. Thankfully, she took complete responsibility, but the New…