This hebdomad , Twitter has been glut with # AdviceForYoungJournalists , a hashtag actuate by a Felix Salmon clause , " To all the youthful journalists enquire for advice … " Salmon ’s piece strike a foreboding tone ( " thing are not only uncollectible ; they ’re going to get spoiled " ) , and the discussion online has oscillated between theoptimisticandpessimistic , the ridiculous andpractical .
While the news program manufacture has undoubtedly gone through seismic alteration over the past decade or so , one thing has remained the same : honest-to-goodness newsperson always want to give young reporters advice , whether they want to pick up it or not . Here are some bits of # AdviceForYoungJournalists from decades and centuries by .
1902:
" The young man who has mastered his business is a professional journalist in the only sense in which the word ' professional ' is understood by working journalists . In the absence of a diploma from any teaching body a world secures his professional status through his experience … A man may hear all that can be taught , and yet not be deserving his salt on a newspaper . If address with diploma , such as he would never move up above the duties of respectable authority plodding . "
— Parliamentary Gallery Reporter J. Henry Harris , The Young Journalist : His Work and how to pick up it .
1903:
“ Always go recently to a crowded meeting , for you will then have the satisfaction of disturbing a batch of people in ordination to get to your prominent seat . "
— R.T. Gunton , Advice to Young Reporters .
1909:
" There is no advice to be given to young journalists except the average advice which is to be give way to human beingness . That is , not to get drunk , but to choose even inebriety to drinking . Not to be insolent , but to choose impertinence to obsequiousness . To write in a legible mitt , and to make notes of everything which one can not remember . "
— G.K. Chesterton , fromThe Collected Works .
1928:
" Mr. Ratcliffe said he would give the young editor program some hard-nosed tips regarding news media as a profession . The drift in newspaper publishing , both here and in England , he said , was toward consolidations , which tend to get out the independent diarist and publisher . The consolidations , he say , make for larger circulations and higher advertising pace , which should react favourably in the wage pay newsman and editors . "
1962:
“ If you would cultivate yourself well for news media , I intimate you train yourself in ideas . The power of mark is the power of musical theme . A print press has no conscience , ethical motive or ethics . These you must supply . ”
— Edward R. Murrow , to aluncheon for high school day paper editor .
1970:
" [ drive to infuse tidings columns and news broadcasts with a reporter ’s own views will ] destroy them . This is the means it was done in the day of the yellow pressure and the screamer of radio ’s first , stammer days . "
— Eric Sevareid , CBS national correspondent .
1981:
“ act as it directly , keep it light and never utilize the word ' unprecedented . ’ Advocate your own story to editors and header for New York because that ’s the bighearted show . You ’ll need lot , but you ’ve induce to push your luck , too . ”
— Former executive editor in chief and vice president ofThe New York TimesTurner Catledge .
