So, who else here is/has been a journalist?

[HEyHEY]

I've been surprised lately by a couple people telling me they are or were. Anyone else?

What's your beat?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear HEyHEY...

Well, I sort of was, about 35 plus years ago!

I wrote a weekly column called Shoppeople for my weekly newspaper...

It was basically a puff piece, some free advertising for the shop that I visited...

It was fun, though!

I'd interview the owners about how they got started, what their products were and so on...

I did it on a weekly basis for two years...

[eyesroll]

2. Inasmuch as trade journalism is journalism, I was a journalist.

Contract janitorial, exciting stuff.

[LearnedHand]

3. {{raises hand}}

I was. Wrote for a business weekly for a while.

[eyesroll]

4. Can I assume, by your username, you're in law now?

(2L at Marquette here. :hi:)

[MissMillie]

5. I was a correspondent to the Worcester Telegram

I would cover news in the town of Hubbardston, MA.

I loved it. I wish I had started doing that when I was much younger... it might have developed into a career.

I can't do that now because I can't afford the pay cut.

[MrScorpio]

6. I've been a cartoonist

Closest I've ever been to one

[Taverner]

7. Me - but you know that :)

[av8rdave]

8. When I was in jr high/high school, I wrote a monthly column for a tropical fish club magazine

Does that count?

[RebelOne]

9. I'm a copy editor for 10 outdoors magazines.

So I guess that would put me in the journalism field.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

10. Recovering Journalist

Mostly freelance but occasionally on staff. I covered everything from murder trials to high school sports.

[Deja Q]

11. Thought about becoming one...

[NightWatcher]

12. do underground newspapers count?

[HEyHEY]

13. No.

Haha, well, that depends. By underground do you mean a blog? In which case, they don't.

[Cabcere]

14. My mom was...

...and I used to date the editor-in-chief of a college paper. :P I thought about going into journalism for a while, but realized I wasn't good with deadlines. :blush: So I guess this post is pretty much pointless. :shrug: Sorry.

[libodem]

19. My Mom, too

she was the editor of her college yearbook, her senior year. She worked for a magazine in, SLC, before she met my dad. She always had great grammar, could spell, typed and proof-read very well. I can't spell or type and can barely get my point across. I was pretty sure DU thought I was a freeper in disguise, my first year here, because I'm so sarcastic and incoherent, most of the time. I'm just a dumb, Democrat. It happens.

[yardwork]

15. I was editor of the "Youth Notes" column in my parish newsletter.

Does that count? :P

[KamaAina]

16. Does the University of New Haven News count?

I was even assistant news editor for a time, whatever that was. :shrug:

Other credits include "rip 'n' read" college radio news, plus a column for a news website out here that was intended to replace a soon-to-be-folding daily; the site died after Canadian David Black stepped in to save the Star-Bulletin! Thanks, eh?

[DS1]

17. Journalist Photographer

but the slimmest of margins

[underpants]

18. I wrote for a small college paper

the college was small the paper itself was your basic standard newspaper size

Tennis and Girl's Basketball.