What does a Journalist do?
- Finds topics and gathers information
- Interviews sources and verifies facts
- Writes the text, report or piece
- Edits and delivers to deadline
Which skills do you need?
Writing skillFact-checkingInterviewingCritical thinkingQuick topic graspEthics and objectivityWorking to deadlines
How to become a Journalist?
- 1Bachelor's: journalism, philology or a humanities field
- 2Practice: a placement at a newsroom or a media project
- 3Junior journalist: work at a publication, a site or a TV channel
What is the work environment like?
Between the newsroom and the field: interviews and events on location, writing at the desk. The work runs on deadlines and irregular hours.