Do I have to go to college to become a jouralist? What cousre and majors do I have to take?

Question

I love fashion, music and African American History. I also love to write and want to be apart of the fashion industry. I like clothes and the models. I just want to up my stills. I like to sketch clothes and just draw in my spare time. I collect alot of teen and fashion magazine. I aways have lot of great Ideas.

Answer 1

yeah, college is a must. journalism degree with a minor in design should do. and then 2 more years after that to get a masters, and hopefully you'll get your foot in the door somewhere

Answer 2

Not in the past, but today employers generally require a four-year degree of some kind.

Journalism is still a field open to the shaping influences of those who join it and consume it.

Journalism-school types naturally maintain that a journalism degree (undergraduate or graduate-level) is the proper way to learn reporting, editing and ethics. I'd say it's one of the better ways to get internships, since recruiters from magazines, for example, more frequently visit j-schools than other colleges.

Journalism is a practical field, however, and employers will mostly want to see your journalism- or writing-related work experience and internships, instead of whether your degree or major is in journalism.

Many leading journalists, in fact, often aren't journalism or communications graduates, but instead graduates of liberal arts programs at the nation's top universities; they get employed anywhere in society because they're the best of the best in many areas. Washington, D.C. reporters, for example, are famously from the Ivy League or top private liberal-arts colleges, not j-schools. (You'll notice many top universities don't even offer journalism as an undergraduate major.) I don't know the numbers, but I'd say most of the magazine field is composed of those not with a journalism degree or major, but rather of writers with majors in English, history, political science, or other fields. In this sense, journalism jobs often attract excelling liberal arts graduates who otherwise don't have a logical, direct, professional career path after college (as engineers or doctors would, for example).

Regardless of training, all journalists must write well about any assigned topic, including those they don't like; write fluidly and quickly under deadline; and be extremely well-read (thus the reason for the English literature and other broad liberal arts courses).

I'd say the quickest way to have a fashion-magazine job in four years (if that's what you want to do for sure) would be a university with a good journalism school, because the faculty and the entire atmosphere are designed to get you employed in such a job.

But if you're a very good student now, grade-wise, my advice is to go instead to the best overall undergraduate university that you can get into (read rankings, consult), and then specialize in your career a few years down the road (with internships or even graduate school). That way if you change your mind regarding the journalism dream, you still have other respected majors and programs to choose from at such a university.

Consult with your parents and understand costs and geographic location (public state universities can be excellent values for these reasons).

I think you'll find most fashion-magazine writers don't have extensive background in fashion; they're just good writers with magazine-writing experience; they know a thing or two about fashion. The next year they might be writing for a gardening magazine.

An excellent high-school-project idea, in fact, is to get your favorite fashion magazine, pick your favorite writer, call the editor's desk, set up a 45-minute phone interview with the writer, ask about their work and how they reached their career positon, and write a paper about the writer and their work.

Answer 3

Yes, you need a degree in journalism. That includes many journalism and English classes as well as other classes required by the University. Good luck.

Answer 4

yes you have to go to college and earn a degree in Mascom major in journalism and minor in fashion. It is true that guidance councilors help students in choosing their majors which they usually call career assessment test..also take a self-assessment test this would help you not only to know yourself better but also to bring out your hidden desires. boost that skills by joining in-and-outside school activities or organizations. good luck!

Answer 5

Ask the Guidance Counselor at your school, he/she is there to help students with questions such as yours.
Yes, you need a college degree.

If your school has a journalism department you should join it and start developing your journalism skills.

Answer 6

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