THIS IS JOURNALISM.

When I was going through my Journalism training, one of my lecturers usually told us that Journalism is not all about being famous, career and probably good money, it’s simply a passion. Well, I now tend to support to go with it. If you told a villager that you are doing Journalism, they’d probably think of appearing on TV and such. Fortunately or unfortunately, it’s a different other things alongside the whole avenue. Say production work, scriptwriting and all that. This is a course that should be taken by curious, enthusiastic and enthusiastic people. I think I forgot talkative, but not per se. but especially radio Journalism really requires social people who will interact with others regardless of any barriers. Journalists should be credible with information, I mean; they should be trust-able by the audience. They should also be reliable, accurate and ‘sharp’. My sharpness here means they should be up to date with information. It would be very bad when someone asks a ‘reliable’ Journalist to explain something that is happening in the country, it would be so shameful for one to say they don’t know. It also comes with persistence because it really has a lot of challenges and probably when it comes to law (media law & ethics). You have probably seen some journalists going behind bars for some legal actions especially defamation. Again, Journalism really requires a person who is ready to live double lives; the real personal life and the media’s life, we all need to have our own social life that is not known to the public. It also requires a person who has a heart-I mean anti-fragile especially when it comes to TV. For example going to shoot a video at Kismayu where you can clearly see people killing each other. Sometime back I asked my lecturer what a photographer should do on arriving an accident scene; help the victims or take the photographs and the lecturer told me you should go ahead and take the photos. Generally, it’s a very tricky career and one need to be ready to live for it.