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Where to start

Don’t wait to be asked - get writing. Write for student media, write blogs, write stories. Journalism is all about communicating stories to an audience. Find your style and learn how to source, research and write those stories. You’ll shape them differently for articles, blogs or social media and for different audiences. 

These early pieces will tell you what kind of journalist you want to be and provide you with a portfolio of work.  Look at the job profiles on Prospects.ac.uk to see the different kinds of journalist – Broadcast journalist, Magazine Journalist, News Journalist.  Data journalism is a growing sector – reporting on news and stories sourced in primary data.