I understand that the media ecosystem favors online journalism over print and television. However, I remain fervent in my belief that both will survive and remain resilient through digital media’s rise.
Personally, I would prefer to integrate myself into either the print or online portion of the ecosystem. I feel I express my thoughts best when I write them down and, no matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to possess a clear head and organize thoughts in front of a camera.
I would probably have more opportunities in getting an online job, but working for a print publication would equally suffice. Since I want to pursue sports journalism specifically, I figure that either print or online would allow me to do so. Sports equal entertainment—there’s always room for coverage in one form or another.
Still, you have to work your way up right? Start from the bottom of the ladder? Let’s just say if I were to graduate in December, I would probably have high hopes working for the NFL, NBA, or MLB right out of the gate. I might just start out covering high school sports around areas I have been familiar with—the North and South Bronx to be exact.
But, if I did not have some sort of journalism-related job/internship after graduating, after searching and searching, I would attend journalism graduate school (maybe with a retail job to boot). And, maybe with a master’s degree, I would land a job much quicker. That just depends on how the industry changes during yet another two years of education, which of course, is unpredictable.
