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1. Traveling to many places
For journalism students, the university always encourages you to travel a lot. Not far from home, in practical exercises, you will have the opportunity to experience the outside world, learn how to perceive a place, what people are like...
The nature of journalism is to travel a lot, constantly chasing after new events and information. It can be said that journalism is like a 'journey' of your life. Today you are in one place, tomorrow you have set foot in another place, and the next day you are in a completely different place.
However, when you step into the profession, you will find that these 'journeys' are not as exciting as you thought. You will be overwhelmed by information, events, articles, pressure, and your hands and feet will be constantly busy. But in return, you will be proud of your new knowledge about each locality, each region, the customs, culture, and even the local culinary specialties.
2. Earning money while still a student
When you choose journalism, you will surely have a certain amount of vocabulary and literary skills. If you are a freshman, you can use your 'capital' to compose stories, essays, poems... to submit to teen magazines. From the third year onwards, you will have a certain amount of professional knowledge to be able to write short news, reports... and earn higher writing fees.
Journalism is a difficult field for students, requiring many skills. However, when you have been trained in a professional teaching environment, your ability will surely improve rapidly. With just a little 'capital', you can write news articles, interviews to submit to newspapers and earn extra income for yourself.
Remember, newspaper editorial offices in our country always welcome contributions from freelance contributors. With effort and diligence, you will surely earn yourself a considerable amount of money.
3. Dynamic and always innovative
Are you a dynamic person, who dislikes repetition and always wants to innovate? Come to journalism, it will give you everything you need.
The nature of the job is to provide the latest, hottest information to readers. Every day, in the whirlwind of life, there are countless new things happening, have happened, and will happen. You - the journalists, will be the ones capturing the events, going there, and delivering the most reliable, accurate information to the readers.
4. Assert yourself
Studying journalism is the best environment for you to assert yourself. Do you want to build a very distinct 'color' for yourself? Do you have a very big ego? Do you want to express yourself through presentations, personal assignments?
Or simply you want to be a standout student. Come to journalism to freely explore your own ideas.
5. Build confidence
Confidence is necessary for all fields, all jobs in life, not just journalism. Very few people in the profession are naturally confident, most are hesitant and shy in front of crowds.
Studying journalism, the environment and teachers will create the best conditions to improve your weaknesses. Gradually, self-doubt and shyness will disappear.
If you ever ask yourself, where is the best place to assert yourself? One of the answers is the Journalism environment. Like you, those who decide to pursue this path have a very large ego, wanting to express themselves through presentations, personal assignments.
To be an outstanding student in class and assert yourself, you will surely have to make a lot of effort. If not, never dream of surpassing others!
6. Constantly enrich knowledge
Every day, you need to spend at least 1.5 hours in the morning to grasp prominent news at home and abroad, enrich social knowledge as a luggage, supporting your career. In journalism, the best way to learn is to learn from life itself, learn from friends, colleagues, and self-study in your own practical activities.
Enriching the 'data warehouse' in your head is the condition to build quality, deep, and persuasive articles with the most rigorous, reasonable arguments.
7. You hold the power of public opinion
As the creator and guide of social public opinion, you represent the voice of the masses. But that's why you should be careful with your 'words and speech' in the newspaper.
Verifying and confirming accurate information sources is always the first principle of a journalist. Journalists are professionals in reporting news. Their specific task is to search, verify, evaluate, and provide information about all new events that the public needs to know every day, every hour, every minute, and even every second.
8. Societal needs
With the rapid development of the market economy, the need for information and communication, as well as the demand for high-quality human resources in journalism and communication, are increasingly demanding. Besides the 'hot' majors in the Economics, Finance, Foreign Trade, and Commerce fields, journalism is also the focus, the number one choice of young people today.
Journalism is one of the most concerned industries today – not by chance that journalism is called the 'fourth power' of society. Therefore, becoming a journalism student and sticking to that path in the future is not a bad choice at all.
9. Sharpening analytical thinking
To accurately assess issues and reflect the true nature of journalism, a reporter needs to have sharp thinking and the ability to analyze 'different' situations compared to ordinary people. In addition to the usual ways of presenting news, a reporter should offer different perspectives, explore aspects that colleagues rarely consider.
Always knowing how to grasp public tastes and thoughts, what issues they want to see in the newspaper, what to watch on TV… to create enduring works.
10. Learning more than just writing
As mentioned above, many young people mostly think that studying journalism is just... learning to write. However, with the diversity of forms (mentioned above) along with the current information needs, a journalism student must be multifaceted.
Firstly, writing is still the most fundamental and important skill in the newspaper industry because writing is the tool for conveying information before they are recorded, read aloud,... Coming to the journalism industry, you will have the opportunity to become familiar with specialized equipment such as cameras, camcorders, recorders, microphones,... as well as editing software like Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Indesign. Especially, becoming a talented photographer, creating professional virtual photos, making million-view videos... is not too far-fetched!
In addition, communication skills, clear and round pronunciation will also be emphasized in the Broadcasting subject. Many journalism students are quite surprised when participating in a Broadcasting class, which is no different from a vocal training session at the Music Academy. Experienced lecturers, guest broadcasters will help you learn how to read correctly, how to keep your breath stable and emphasize in broadcasting...
However, most current MCs on TV shows, radio shows mostly come from journalism. With the opportunity to interact with reality, to become familiar with the lens while still in school, to master the specialized knowledge... are the outstanding points that have made many journalism students stick with the MC profession.
11. Diverse career choices
If you think that studying journalism will make you a reporter writing for newspapers, going to collect news from all regions... then you are greatly mistaken! Journalism is divided into 4 main groups: print media, television, radio, online newspapers.
Each type will have different experiences and different complementary knowledge. While print media requires students to have strong writing skills, focusing on language; television and radio focus more on visuals, sound accompanied by supporting equipment such as cameras, microphones, recording devices...
In addition, online newspapers are a type of journalism that has appeared recently but has developed tremendously thanks to integrating most of the characteristics of the other types. In online newspapers like Zingnews, Thanh Nien Online,... you can read news, watch videos, listen to radio and even interact with authors and other users. Therefore, you can rely on your interests, abilities to determine what to pursue from the beginning.
12. Optimize soft skills
Have you ever wondered: Why are journalists so sharp and quick when collecting news? How can they get information while the subject is hostile? And why do they seem to know everything?
The answer is that besides specialized knowledge, journalism students also have lessons and practical experiences. Many assignments in class are encouraged by teachers, even requiring students to go out and work. Locations can vary from parks, stadiums to schools, markets... With a diverse working environment, demanding adaptation, self-exploration, and information seeking. Skills like asking for directions, probing thoughts, getting familiar with subjects... will give you unique experiences moving from the book pages to real life.
Working in teams is essential in journalism activities. For subjects like television, radio... each member must push each other to develop scripts, adjust angles, lights... to perfection. Especially, memories of working together, getting scolded while filming at the market, being admired by others... will make your university life full of experiences.
