Our lecture this week was run by guest speaker Steve Molk, who decided he wanted to be a journalist a few years after completing an undergraduate course in Chemistry.
He had a lot of interesting things to say, in particular he mentioned that actually having a real passion for journalism and showing an employer that you are geniunely interested and not just there for the job is essential within journalism.
Blogging is becoming more and more prominent as a way of obtaining news. Blogging is a way of interacting with others with similar interests, simply at a click of a mouse. For example, Steve told us about Mia Freedman, former editor of Cleo magazine. She started up a blog 5 years ago to write about different topics and share her opinions. Nowadays, 520,000 people read Mia Freedman's blog every MONTH. That's 520, 000 individual people. That is incredible! I never knew how powerful blogging could be in that respect!!!
He also talked about the importance of Twitter, how we can obtain news in less than 140 characters, but also share our stories, what we're doing, our opinions etc.. We can also connect and talk with famous people, people in power and of course, other journalists! He really opened my eyes to the potential of social networking and how we can communicate through it.
His story was very inspiring, because even after 20 years in IT he is still following his dream and his passion through journalism, and has made great progress over the past 2 years active as a journalist. I think that's great that even after probably developing an expertise in a certain area, he has still recognised his true careerpath. Many people would think it's too late, but not Steve.
I think what I took away from this lecture was to start now. Start tweeting more, blogging more and even just writing down thoughts and ideas now. There is no harm expressing how you feel and what your opinions entail, and online is a great way to do that. I'm excited now!
No comments:
Post a Comment