What I Learned in Comm 255 Quinshaw G

Gentle/ Dec 9/ What I learned this year

Some of the things I learned this year about Journalist and Public Relations changed some of my perspectives on what I want to do after college with my career. At first, I wanted to work in the public Relations field for a company’s special event team.  After learning how organizations deliver their messages to the media, while keeping their public image as positive as possible and how PR practitioners differ from journalists. I decided my true interests are Sport Cars, Video games and Electronics. I want to follow one of these beats as a reporter or blogger.

I learned the Associated Press Stylebook offers guidelines for news writing. And many public relations offices and publications, such as magazines and newspapers, use AP style as a standardized writing style, this was one of the most complicated things to deal with this semester.

My favorite thing we did this semester as a class was the exercise were the journalist had to solve the cafeteria food mystery and submit the story by the deadline. I never realized until now that it takes an entire team to create just one article in a Newspaper. I have a new found appreciation for all journalist and that is thanks to Comm 255.