The document provides an overview of the field of journalism, including its history and various types of journalism jobs. It describes the roles of newspaper reporters, investigative reporters, foreign correspondents, broadcast journalists, photojournalists, sports journalists, and online journalists. It also discusses the dangers of journalism work and necessary traits for journalists like inquisitiveness, high ethics, and impartiality.

1. History Facts ” nationality” of journalism or how it’s done in other countries ” A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.” Burton Rascoe

20. “ People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.” Lewis H. Lapham “ It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.” Jerry Seinfeld We can't quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder. ~ The Houghton Line , November 1965

21. Quotes “ Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock. ” ~Ben Hecht In the real world, the right thing never happens in the right place and the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to make it appear that it has. ~Mark Twain “ The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you.” ~C.E.M. Joad