Lecture 12

Today, as our last lecture in JOUR1111, we had a guest speaker called Steve Molkington. Steve discussed his journey, from being an undergraduate in chemistry, to suddenly wanting to become a journalist. He is now renowned as one of the most entertaining bloggers in the country. He emphasised the importance of our "own brand", consisting of what we do, where, who with, and most importantly, how it is going to help us to get a job. Steve further discusses the great opportunities we have from the internet and social media, enabling us to control what we write and put out to the public. He discusses that by obtaining a journalism degree does not automatically make you legible to whatever job you please, but by the way you carry yourself, through blogging and social media, is what will make you into an employee machine. After this subject, I have come to the realisation that I don't think journalism is the thing for me. I again worry about the little job opportunity as well as poor salary in the industry, and am heading towards PR as a career. With Steve discussing blogging and having to constantly be on the ball and putting yourself out there, I now know for sure that this is not the thing for me.