Journalism is the discovering and reporting of the truth. Journalism is a means of mass communication to inform its consumers of the current events happening locally, nationally, and globally.
Who is a journalist? I feel there are many different kinds of journalists so to answer that question in one simple sentence wouldn’t suffice. In essence, journalists (print and broadcast) search for the truth and find a way to report it so their stories can relate and apply to the masses. Even though I have only been reading the New York Times for a few days I have already picked up on different styles of different journalists. There are journalists who act as reporters and strictly report the news and there are those who connect with the people they interview and in doing so, offer a voice to the voiceless. There are journalists who take the news and infuse their own opinion into it as a result of their background and their bias. Everyone person on this earth was raised a little differently than their neighbor, they each have different backgrounds and view the world through their own eyes. Because of this, you could give five journalists the same story and at the end of the day you will have five different takes on the same story because each one of them will (whether they realize it or not) add a little bit of themselves and their opinion to their article.
With the technology we have available to us in this generation, it seems that anyone can be (and is) a journalist. All you really need is a blog or twitter and an opinion and there you go!
Journalism is a way to inform, express, and connect. And it the job of the journalist to gather that information and present it in a way that will relate to the consumers of mass media as a whole.
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