The writing or journalism industry might be changing, but for sure it won’t disappear. Today, more than ever people are consuming news with a devouring appetite. Regardless how much times or things change, there will always be demand for trusted news sources. Armed with a university degree and later with experience, Joel Landau began his writing career while he was still studying. After a few smaller positions he eventually started doing what he truly loved. Same as any other profession, I order to achieve your career dreams you should take a specific set of steps. If you’re looking to start a journalism career the traditional, old fashioned school path can provide you with a solid foundation, but a structured path is not necessarily right for everyone. Becoming a writer or a journalist is a journey that has more paths to choose from, and here Joel Landau shares a great guide that can help young, aspiring talents on how to become writers and journalists.
Pursuing journalism as a profession can be equally challenging and demanding as pursuing any other profession. The most important element for this profession is love, or as Joel Landau says, love for putting pen to paper. Through the stories that you write, you can capture scenes, images, and events in powerful words, and share them with the world in order to impact lives and raise awareness. Journalism allows you to learn new things every day, meet interesting people and write and speak about a new idea. But that doesn’t mean it is all milk and honey as you need to be able to talk to people, follow and predict trends, organize your research and communicate it in an engaging ad compelling way.
Journalism is a competitive field which means that if you want to be a better writer or blogger, you’ll need to bleed story ideas and execute them perfectly. Although this is all hard to sustain, still it’s possible. In urban centers, there are more journalism job opportunities than anywhere else. Joel Landau describes journalism as a relationship business and says that if he could go back in time and change one thing, he would put in more time and effort in building and maintaining long-lasting relationships with professors, colleagues, and peers. Some day these people might get hired by some of the industry's leaders, and thus make great contacts. It’s never too early or too late to start networking.
