Journalism/Communications Career

One thing that I've wanted for a while is major in Journalism/Communications while I am in college. Since I was in second grade I knew I wanted to do something with writing as a career. We took a survey on what our favorite thing to do was in school. We all stood up and went to different areas. Finally, writing was called and I was the only one sitting on the floor. Most kids chose gym or art but I chose writing. I was always passionate about writing, I've always had a good imagination and would create this own little word and story and make it my own. As I got older I started to like Social Studies because I was able to do a lot of research. Google was like my best friend, I was always on it. So one day, I asked someone what's something that you can do with research and writing? Journalism. I became obsessed with the idea of being a journalist and being able to write about different stories. I started watching the news all the time to see everything that was happening current day. Then eventually, I started writing short stories about events that had happened or I would write about the war going on or 9/11. For the next couple years I had it implanted in my brain that I wanted to be a Journalist. Then, one Christmas Eve I started talking to my cousin about her career, she was in Public Relations area (Communications). She told me all these stories about meeting celebrities and how she was standing right next to One Direction and how the nicest celebrity is Snooki when she walked with her down the red carpet. I thought I was in love with this area because I would get to meet all these famous people. When really this is something I would be perfect. She gave me an example of what she does, she said, "Say Jennifer Lopez cheated on her husband and it became public. She would contact us to help her and we would create a better story and sell it to say, Good Morning America and they would air it." I thought that sounded amazing. She said some people even broadcast it themselves. I thought that sounded amazing, I would be writing, a Journalist and I would be able to work with amazing people. I've always thought this is the perfect career for me, and I think more people should consider it.

On wikipedia the definition of Communications Studies is: Communication studies is an academic field that deals with processes of human communication. The discipline encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation to mass media outlets such as television broadcasting. Communication studies also examines how messages are interpreted through the political, cultural, economic, semiotic,hermeneutic, and social dimensions of their contexts.
On Wikipedia the definition of Journalism is: Journalism is gathering, processing, and dissemination of news and information related to the news to an audience. The word applies to both the method of inquiring for news and the literary style which is used to disseminate it.^[1] [2]