Career in Journalism is an esteemed profession as well as a highly rewarded one. Journalism is concerned with collection and dissemination of news through the print media as well as the electronic media. This involves various areas of works like reporting, writing, editing, photographing, broadcasting or cable casting news items. Journalist informs, interprets, educates, enlightens the people and plays a major role in the development of nation. The purpose of Journalism itself is to collect information about daily happenings in the society. So, to become a journalist one should be tactful, confident and organised while interviewing people from different backgrounds. They must have the ability to accept criticism and willingness to do considerable rewriting.
Journalists can specialize in diverse areas such as politics, finance and economics, investigation, culture and sports for newspapers and periodicals.
On the basis of media, Journalism can be classified into two:
• Print Journalism
• Electronic (Audio/Visual) Journalism