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 Collins College
Program: Are you interested in becoming a sought-after video professional? Collins College is ready to help you train to enter this area of visual communications by offering instruction in Digital Video Editing using the next wave of video technology, Avid Xpress® for Macintosh®. The Digital Video program consists of utilizing industry current computers to edit audio and video in a digital, non-linear format rather than the traditional magnetic method.
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Industry Description
A career in journalism is one of the most varied, challenging, rewarding and potentially flexible careers around. Whether you are a full-time political journalist in the high-brow press, or a freelance journalist for women’s magazines, you will need to love the written word and have a good eye for a story and an angle. The options are almost endless, whether you settle for TV, politics, PR, or freelance, family-friendly working from home.
Journalism courses might be full-time, part-time undergraduate or masters. You may want to pursue an undergraduate degree in a course that interests you or which can provide a career specialty, such as the sciences or the liberal arts. You then have the option to undertake an online master’s degree in journalism while you work, or a full-time master’s if you can afford it. Alternatively, you might want to launch straight into an undergraduate journalism degree.
In both cases, you would hope to gain some practical, newsroom experience if possible. In journalism, there is no substitute for the real thing, and you must be willing to work hard and long in the early days.
Newspaper journalism is more than a career - it is a vocation. You need to think about all the options first. You will probably have been interested in writing all your life, and would do well to have worked on your high-school paper. These days, most trainee print journalists have either an undergraduate or masters a degree in journalism. While some areas of journalism still depend most on tenacity and writing skills, other areas now demand a high level of education. Typing and shorthand skills are also important.
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