07-05-2019, 11:05 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-05-2019, 11:09 AM by ReyMysterioso.)
My dream goal is being a tv sportscaster. My work experience includes working for a trade magazine for seven years that includes photojournalism/cover shoots/tons of video/documentary projects/print articles/press releases/web articles/social media etc.... working freelance for a local news website, working photojournalism very briefly for a newspaper's arts & entertainment special weekly (it went defunct), and three broadcasts doing play by play commentary for alternative sports on ESPN3.
An alternate goal would be to work in PR/communications in government and politics. Either career path would be fulfilling.
When soliciting advice for transitioning into more TV/broadcast work, older wiser people insisted to really get anywhere, or be taken seriously for positions, I would need a Journalism degree. I have my doubts on whether that's really true, given my existing portfolio of experience. It seems like a degree would be redundantly throwing away money getting a sheepskin for something I already know how to do. In researching it, it seems journalism degrees aren't really all that respected....yet most people in the jobs that I'd want DO have them.
Yet English seems like the more useful degree in that there's more potential fallback job options with it. Journalism degrees are worthless outside the shrinking field of journalism.
An alternate goal would be to work in PR/communications in government and politics. Either career path would be fulfilling.
When soliciting advice for transitioning into more TV/broadcast work, older wiser people insisted to really get anywhere, or be taken seriously for positions, I would need a Journalism degree. I have my doubts on whether that's really true, given my existing portfolio of experience. It seems like a degree would be redundantly throwing away money getting a sheepskin for something I already know how to do. In researching it, it seems journalism degrees aren't really all that respected....yet most people in the jobs that I'd want DO have them.
Yet English seems like the more useful degree in that there's more potential fallback job options with it. Journalism degrees are worthless outside the shrinking field of journalism.
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