WHY BLOGGING IS IMPORTANT FOR STUDENT JOURNALISTS

                     

 

BY Yonela Kulati

I believe that blogging for students journalist is the way to pave their future into the Journalism Department , remember competition is every where nowadays the earlier you prepare for your future the better.

Blogging  as a student journalist will help you become a better journalist and get work. 

A blog is beneficial to both the writer and the reader. Writing a blog early from as a student Journalist will help you improve your skills as a journalist in every way. 

You'll improve your writing, research, investigation, skepticism, listening, communication, and editing skills. 

If you devote yourself fully to blogging, you will improve in all aspects of the Internet. On this, I can speak from personal experience. Furthermore, you must be able to write for the Web if you want to work in journalism after graduation. 

The good things about blogging as a student Journalist is that you learn at an early age to speak for others and it is also teaches speaking the truth and revealing the truth which can also be significant to the community.Yes, you can make a difference in other people's lives by creating a blog. 

Whatever you're talking about, or how unusual your circumstance is, there's always the possibility that someone else is facing a similar problem, difficulty, or situation. 

Your blog postings may assist readers cope with a terrible occurrence, inspire them to try something new, and/or make a decision to enhance their lives on an intellectual or emotional level.

As you blog as student Journalist it help you to boost knowledge and life experience, the more you blog the more you are exposed to reality world of journalism. Blogging is important for student journalists because it help to hone your writing skills as a journalist since writing is a very valuable skill in journalism, as you blog more frequently you will notice that you are paying  more attention to word choice, sentence structure, tone and copywriting. Blogging can offer new opportunities for you as student Journalist,  it may help you to get job because people desired what you write about and inspired them. Blogging helps a student Journalist to gain more self confidence as he/ she constantly blog. 

In this video I'm demonstrating what I am willing to achieve with my blog.