Who Is A Journalist

After reading Scott Grant's We're All Journalists Now for my JRNL 213 course, I wanted to answer a question Grant asks his readers. It brought up many ideas in my head and I wanted to share them with my viewers. =]

Who is a journalist?

This question goes with what we have been learning in this Digital Journalism course. Are bloggers considered to be journalists? How about the idea of YouTube or any other video sharing network online, would those users be journalists?

Always agreeing with the idea of yes, those people involved with the above areas are considered to be journalists. And according to Webster's New World dictionary. The New World dictionary definition of journalism is "the work for, or producing of, a newspaper, ect." It does specifically express newspaper, but it also has the ect. afterward. Just like news reporters on television are journalists.

We (our digital journalism class) blog three times weekly, and we blog about various different items. Our readings, current world events, and other various things. Are we, as students, considered journalists? We provide information to an audience. We create work for the ect. portion of the definition of journalism, according to Webster's New World dictionary.

I hear more and more about YouTube. There is so much information on YouTube. You can learn how to do various things, you can watch people dance, you can watch music videos, clips from movies, and clips from the news. I asked someone how to do something, and they told me to look on YouTube to figure it out. There is just so much to be seen and heard on YouTube.

The roles of a journalist are and have changed, it is no longer just television and newspaper now. There is so much more out there and so much more to advance.