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Being a Journalist The definition of a journalist is a person who practices the occupation or profession of journalism. Journalism is the occupation of reporting, writing, editing, photographing, or broadcasting news or of conducting any news organization as a business. Also, writing that reflects superficial thought and research, a popular slant, and hurried composition, conceived of as exemplifying topical newspaper or popular magazine writing as distinguished from scholarly writing. (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/journalist?s=t) What people do in this job, as also listed above, is they practically do writing, English, Language Arts. There are different types of journalism; there are the reporting journalists, the news/ newspaper journalists, and the reserved journalists. Each of these jobs is unique in their own way. And they all revolve around creative writing. Of course, like all jobs, job interviewers look for experienced employees. And to be an experienced employee you are going to have to get an education. Education costs money, and to be a journalist, it can costs quite a bit of money. According to my research, the costs for college in journalism vary. Like I stated in my second paragraph, there are different jobs with different prices. Me, being only a freshman in high school, I am still not quite sure about what I want to be still. The average cost for just an average journalist is $12,127 for public colleges offering journalism classes. (http://www.ehow.com/search.html?s=how+much+money+does+college+cost&skin=corporate&t=all) Whatever you are applying for, a news cast, Newspaper Company, whatever it is, whoever is hiring, are going to be looking for education and/ or experience. There are many journalist colleges you can go to, including Columbia University in New York City, NY, University of California – Berkeley, and Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA (http://education-portal.com/top_journalism_colleges.html). And