Through my two years in Journalism class and my own previous experiences I have possessed some of these qualities that a good journalist possesses. Self-direction, self-confidence, communication skills, listening skills, speaking skills, interpersonal skills, and curiosity and awareness have all been accumulated through various experiences such as having to do presentations, and speaking in front of my peers. I can recall becoming comfortable with this for the first time in my eighth grade speech class. Curiosity and awareness I would say was an innate quality for me. However, among the qualities a good journalist should have, I would need to work on a few. The first would be writing skills. Although, I am a fairly decent writer, I feel I can work on my journalistic writing. To do this I could begin by reading more articles and newspapers to become familiar with other experienced journalist writing. Another thing I feel I can do is simply look at past articles I have written and correct them for grammar. By doing this I would hope it would help me to naturally develop good habits when writing such as proper usage of commas, capitalization, etc. The third and final thing I could do is simply practice. Writing articles is the only thing that will ultimately benefit writing skills. Practice, practice, practice !
