Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
Follow your passions. Young people ask me this all the time, like, "I don't know exactly
what I want to do. I don't know exactly what I'm good at." And I say, "There have to be
things that you're really good at." So what part of journalism do you really, what responds
you? What kind of turns you on? What's your passion about that? Because if you, if you
figure that out, you're probably going to be good at it. You know, the things that we're
just even a little bit good at, we put more effort in, we put more time. And if you can
get that job - doesn't matter what they call you, it doesn't matter what the assignment
is - do it well, do it better than anybody else would do it, stay late, get up early.
In fact, I hear story after story from people when they tell me about their first jobs.
Someone said, "I wanted to be in a newsroom. You know, I was at a television station, I
wanted to be in the newsroom. I took the night duty because I knew things happened at two
o'clock or three o'clock in the morning. Most people don't want to do that. So I went out
to fires, and I went out to accidents, but," she said, "my boss, the producer, saw that
I was willing to do almost anything so that I could understand the fundamentals, learn
the business from the bottom up, and then I moved along." And this is somebody very
famous in the newscasting business today.