I’m an exchange student from
China. When I studied in China, my major was broadcasting and hosting. But I
was not satisfied with listening to the director’s requirement and reading or broadcasting
the ready-made draft just like a doll. I want to be a journalist who not only
can be the anchor or hostess, but also can write the stories, do the
post-production, etc. So I changed my major to broadcast journalism in there. Now,
journalism is my passion.
In my eyes, good
journalists can do everything by themselves—interview someone while shooting,
write and dub the voice-over script, do the post-production and broadcast the
story—even though they don’t need to do all of them. That is not easy but
interesting. I used to have an internship at a TV station in my hometown. I witnessed
that stay up late was very frequent for media workers, but when we saw our
product on TV, it was too hard to express how happy and excited we were. Sounds
strange but the feeling just like giving birth to baby and then raising him
grow up!
In addition, journalists can travel to many
different places. One of my dreams is travel around the world to meet different
people and see different scenery. But I don’t have enough money and time to do
that. I wish I could be a journalist of international affairs even though it is
a difficult task. I enjoy the process of travel that broaden my horizon and
gain the knowledge. "What should a journalist do sounds not like the work,
but it is incredible fun work," Tom Clifford, the editor of Montgomery
Adviser, said when he came to my reporting class last week. “You can talk with
many kinds of different people and go to many places.”
For me, journalism is not
only a major, it includes many things. Each journalist should know about many
things such as marketing, computer science and so on. You don't need to learn
it very well, but know what it is at least. Because your story may be contain
much knowledge.
Journalism is my passion.
Although the media industry is competitive, I would never give up my dream job.
