It's super easy these days to start your own newspaper. All you need is a computer, a printer, and a full plate of stories to cover. Your newspaper could cover the news in your neighborhood, or on your block, or at your school. If your parents have a digital camera or a scanner, you can even include photos with your stories. Christine Grade 10 New Jersey A. Christine, Like many of my fellow journalists, I thought that by going into journalism I'd help make the world a better place.
Many journalists are idealists at heart.
I was in college, studying German literature, and what I was learning seemed so abstract, so unconnected to the world around me, that in my senior year I drifted away from German literature and began working on my school newspaper. That's an excellent question. Many people I know are relieved, and at the same time they are wondering if the threat was less than everyone imagined or if all the technical problems got fixed in time. I think it's probably a combination of the two. I was more worried about terrorist attacks than computer glitches, and I was relieved when they didn't materialize.