APi: Lost Meaning of ‘Objectivity’

Article: http://www.americanpressinstitute.org/journalism-essentials/bias-objectivity/lost-meaning-objectivity/

Journalism isn’t taught, but is learned. What I got from this article is that journalism cannot be taught in class, but rather an experience that is gained from life.

• “Overwhelmingly the answer was: by trial and error and on my own or from a friend. Rarely did journalists report learning them in journalism school or from their editors.”

This part really stuck out to me because that’s kinda with everything. Accidentally added baking soda instead of baking power, its okay. Turned all your white socks pink? Its okay, try again. Its okay to make mistakes. Live and learn and keep on going. Journalism is just like that, your first article isn’t going to be awesome and people will criticize it. Keep on writing. Keep on researching. Keep on going. They will all get better and if you stop writing, you will never know if the writing do get better. Use the criticisms from the old articles to only improve. No one is perfect and things will always get better.

Basically, live and learn. No one will ever receive the experience to be a journalist in a class. The only way to get that experience is to get out there and find things out for themselves. Keep on writing.