Journalism plays a crucial role in our world. It is not only a way to hold those in power accountable, but it helps society to move forward. Through exploring issues and bringing information to the public, it pulls people out of their own worlds, or causes them to look closer at something within them. This allows decisions that are made to be educated, and differing views to be heard and considered.
Through exposing new people, issues, and perspectives, journalism can contribute to greater tolerance in society, an understanding of why certain things are the way they are, and an opportunity for those things to be questioned.
Journalism makes a difference--that is the main reason I have chosen it as a career. It is a career that allows me to use my strengths of writing, researching, and speaking to fulfill a feeling of responsibility to the world we live in. Through journalism, I am determined to tell stories that truly make a difference to the people watching, listening to or reading them.
