Earlier, they used to tell the public opinion. But these days, most newspapers just make PUBLIC OPINIONS.
Press job is one of the most powerful jobs without working in the govt system. There are many competent, hardworking journalists working all over the world but with the so-called materialism world, money also makes the mare go.
Mass communication is known to be a gateway to enter media industry.
In a newspaper, a journalist can work mainly as two profiles.
1. Reporter
2. Editor
It depends like what newspaper do you want to work with. Hindi or English (or in any other language)
If you work with English paper, you should have good command over the language, understand the ethics and protocol of media industry, how to develop sources for news, how to file news, how to work under pressure at times when you don't have any news to publish.
If you want to work as an editor, first rank is Sub-Editor. You should have excellent command over the language, understand the style-sheets of a newspaper, meet deadlines, and know how to design a newspaper page.
Being a sub-editor, the job requires you to work on desk only hence, it is also called desk job. Here, you have to edit stories, give them headlines, decide what photo should be published, write captions, highlight any news if required.
One of the finest works here is about selecting limited news. There are people who are biased in newspapers. But I recommend you to work only for news not for views.
Again, you have to meet deadlines under lots of pressure at times. Call the reporter if you cant understand anything in his/her written news, verify the facts sometimes and should be very responsible.
Contributed by Nasser Gorsi
