Investing four years of my life in a reputable University program for Media Studies is something that I am confident will provide me with the knowledge basis and contacts needed for a career in journalism. However, I was introduced to the term Citizen Journalism, a writer who can in a sense take the spotlight away from paid journalists because they had a note pad and cell phone camera at the right time. Despite the fact that there are citizen journalists out there, I plan to do my best to ensure that my stories and comments will be read.
Everyone deserves the freedom to voice their thoughts and opinions, I just have a little problem with the fact that here I am learning all the formal fundamentals while someone who may have not gone to post-secondary education has the potential to publish a better story than me!
As I reflect on citizen journalism, I was thinking about how my blog could be considered citizen journalism too. I make this relation because I am voicing my own opinions on the world-wide web which could be easily compared to someone writing a small article in the newspaper. In this mindset I encourage the idea of Citizen Journalism (because it is giving me a small voice in world issues). Yet, somehow I am troubled to think that when I complete my program at the University of Guelph-Humber, a normal citizen could get a better spot in the paper than me.
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