>> The challenge, it's a tremendous challenge to work on these types of issues.
You have to be, keep updated on political issues, you know, other things going
on in the world, not only in the United States, but internationally.
That's a major challenge.
Jumping on a topic that really you don't know much about, but then you start,
you know, writing a news story about it.
You have to know the fundamentals of putting a news story together, the inverted pyramid.
What's most important at the top.
And so jumping on that quickly is a major challenge, and, like I say,
keeping up with all those events.
Journalism is the type of profession where you really can't sit
in a classroom the whole time and learn how to do it.
You have to really pound the pavement and get out there and do the work.
I'm not dismissing the fact that classroom work is very important.
You can learn the basics, fundamentals, and structure, things like that,
but you have to get out and do the work.
Look for internships.
Get your foot in the door somewhere.
That's a major challenge to get started.
Start while you're in college.
Write for your school newspaper.
Write for a local paper or, you know, broadcast wise, you know, get with a local TV station.
That's the first challenge.
Another major challenge is, you know, coming up with these different ideas.
Like if you're on a beat, beat reporter, you have to know that topic,
but you may have to crank out a story every day.
So you really have to keep up on that particular topic, and know how to, you know,
be able to file that different story every day.