Aug
5
Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists.
This month sees the return of ‘Tomorrow’s News, Tomorrow’s Journalists’ – a site originally set-up as a platform for young, aspiring journalists to share experiences of their ever-growing careers so far, and to debate issues relevant to them.
Anyone is welcome to sign up and get involved, as long as they meet the following criteria:
1) They are younger than 30-years-old;
2) They blog about journalism/are interested in taking part in an online discussion about journalism.
These are two things that are certainly common amongst wannabe journalists – the second arguably the more important.
Following on from Joseph Stashko’s post on student media last week, which urged student journalists to ‘put down their pints and get involved’; TNTJ is another opportunity to build valuable experience that will only benefit us in the long run.
As Joseph said:
“You’ve paid your fees, bought a copy of McNae’s law, and at the end of three years slogging away at intros, pyramid writing and shorthand, you’ll become a journalist, right?”
Wrong. But it is well within your ability to make it right.
Despite the grim outlook for student journalists, with redundancies and cost-cutting measures constantly on the agenda, the current generation of learners are the future of the industry, and as such should work together, collaborating and sharing ideas whenever and wherever possible.
TNTJ can provide a platform to do this – with a monthly topic/question to discuss throughout the course of a month; budding journalists can bounce ideas off one another and hopefully build a genuinely useful set of discussions.
The only way things get better and improve are through discussion and debate.
I would urge all fellow student journalists to get involved; make an account, get your voice heard, make a difference, and help to make journalism a better industry; one discussion at a time.
