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Chloe Komarzynski Sharon Wade-Ferrell Introduction to Journalism HEJ101 21st March 2005 What is a News Journalist? According to David Conley (vii) 'if the media acts as society's scoreboard, journalists are score-keepers. Some might think that the score is padded or that someone cannot count, but few can deny that journalists are daily historians, recording a community's best and worst moments'. Conley states 'they give a town, city, state, nation - sometimes humanity - a sense of self' (viii). This paper will give a job description of a news journalist, and whether there role differs from other media writers/presenters. The paper will also argue that the role of a news journalist is still important in today's global and multi-media society. The history of journalism will also be examined and how it has changed in the past century, and the new challenges that news journalists face today. According to Conley news can be defined as 'any information...

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