How To Be A Good Journalist- Carrie Wharton Priest

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HOW TO BE A GOOD JOUR NALIST



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Improving Your Writing Skills Build Your Grammar Skills Build Your Grammar Skills Develop New Skills Be Speedy And Accurate Take A Writing Class Develop Confidence Expand Your Knowledge Base For Example



Improving Your Writing Skills

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Write every day - Journalism consists mostly of writing, whether it's an article or live-tweeting a story. You need to be a strong writer who has a voice, and the way to get there is practice



Build Your Grammar Skills 

You need to be able to proofread and edit your writing so that you can produce clean copy. Use a spellchecker to avoid misspellings, and proofread to make sure that you don’t have any typos.



Develop New Skills 

 Find articles that you like and try to write your own article in a similar way. This is called using a mentor text. Your mentor text serves as a model for how an article should be written.



Be Speedy And Accurate 

Journalists have a quick turn-around time between assignment and deadline. Think about how fast news is reported after it happens. To be a good journalist, you need to be able to meet your readers’ expectations by producing speedy and accurate work.



Take A Writing Class 

Your best option for improving your writing is a class. Even accomplished writers still take classes to gain new skills or push themselves to try different forms of writing. Check with your school, find a workshop, or look for an online class.



Develop Confidence 

When you’re putting yourself out there whether through your writing or when meeting new people - confidence is essential to helping you be successful. You need to be able to approach others and form relationships that help you, and you also need to project that you know your worth.



Expand Your Knowledge Base 

Being able to understand various topics, sniff out stories, and look at things from various perspectives are all necessary to be a good journalist.



For Example 

Carrie Wharton Priest is a experienced journalist and with her quality skills has gained a huge name in this industry.



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