My professor gave us an assignment this week. In it there was a writing prompt. The wiriting prompt was "Journalismis can't be journalism until its published"
I hadn't thought about it that way before. I had considered journalism to be more like writing short stories or essays. The stories didn't need to be published to be journalism.
I changed my mind. Journalism is all about getting relevant news out to people in a timely manner. Stories have to be published to make them news to anybody. Which means that journalism is only that when something has been published.
My question to this logic is, if jouranlism is being published can anything be journalistic? Can we accept poor wiritng or made up non sense as journalism just beasue it has been published?
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