LO2: Task three - Carrer pathway reaserch

there are many different types of journalistic work that are available to people. Below I have elaborated on some of these:

a)Independent (e.g freelance, self-employment etc)

1) Freelance work:
A freelance job would involve a journalist applying for specific contracts from a business and doing them for a fee. This would require the writer to be extremely versatile in terms of their writing style, mode of address and restrictive/ elaborate coding. However it gives the journalist much more freedom to explore different types of news reporting so that they may , if they choose, go into that style.
This also benefits large news outlets as that it means that they don't have to pay for full time members of staff or offer the same benefits that a full time contract would come wit (for example a freelance writer would not legally have to be paid for their labor if they do not complete the work correctly.

2) Self employment:
In the internet age it is far easier thin ever to become an independent journalist with people like Dan Gilmore pioneering so called "citizen journalism." There is a large amount of risk associated with becoming self employed however and it is completely up to the individual to make sure that they are making enough money to live on.
All that is required to become a self employed journalist is a website or somewhere to print your articles. However due to the risk associated with this line of work it would be required for the individual to conduct large amounts of research on the platforms that they are using to distribute their work and the audience they are trying to reach.

https://www.upwork.com/o/jobs/browse/skill/journalism-writing/ - This website hosts several freelance journalism jobs and offers money for their completion.

      

b)Voluntary sector

It is common to work on a voluntary basis in journalism as that it is a very crowded sector of work. many people choose to work voluntarily so that they can gain relevant experience that will benefit them in getting a paid vocation later on in life.

Personally I feel that the voluntary sector would be the most open to me at this point in time as that I am not qualified to be a writer professionally and therefore I would have to do work unpaid in order to build up a resume for myself, potentially meaning that I could use the work I have done there when I am trying to get a job in a real publication.

c)Employment

There are many different institutions that require journalists to work for them. For example Newspapers, magazines, any kind of news television network and news websites.
Journalists are very important components of these businesses and therefore they always make sure that they are always mostly or fully staffed.

Due to what I have stated above it is obviously very difficult to become a professional journalist at this point in time. This means that I would ha

d)Work based training

Work based training would be where an aspiring writer would learn from one who has been employed for a while and gaining knowledge for a future role.

e)Further education

This would entail going to a collage or school that covers some kind of journalism course. This would build up a base understanding of the subject so that it would be possible to do a higher role. 

f)Higher education

This would be the process of going to a university and gaining a degree in journalism as to