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Journalism: All You Need to Know

Newspaper journalists, also known as reporters, investigate and write up stories for local, regional and national newspapers. They cover any event of interest to their specific audience, ranging from reporting on council meetings and school fetes for a local paper, to general elections and world events for the national press.

As a newspaper journalist, your work would typically include:

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Sports Journalist

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A sports journalist works in the media industry (newspaper, magazines, radio, television, internet) and source, research, write and present stories for publication in local, regional and national press.

A day in the life of a Sports Journalist

 

No day is ever the same being a sports journalist, you could be attending an England rugby press conference, reporting on a Champions League match or rustling up a hard-hitting news story in the office.

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A journalist investigates and reports upon events and issues to an audience. They can do this through many different kinds of media: newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and online.

Journalism can be separated very simply into two main schools, the first being news, where stories are broken - or reported - as they happen, investigations are carried out into issues, and in-depth studies, or features, into interesting subjects that may not be on the news agenda.

A Career in Journalism

Fancy Becoming a Sports Journalist?

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A sports journalist works in the media industry (newspaper, magazines, radio, television, internet) and source, research, write and present stories for publication in local, regional and national press.

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A Different Side to Journalism

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Work Experience In The Media

‘Working in the media’ is often the tantalising but rather vague ambition of many a graduate, but the reality of how to actually put this into practice is often more of an uphill struggle than initially expected.

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