Soft Skills for the New Journalist

Name: Soft Skills for the New Journalist
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Soft Skills for the New JournalistCultivating the Inner Resources You Need to Succeed\nAuthor(s): Colleen Steffen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138593138, 978-1138593138\nSynopsis\nJournalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is, your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back into 15 feet of water. Most of us come up for air eventually, but if youre like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen, you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and question lists left something important out: you!\n\nJournalism is people managing, wrestling truth and story out of the messy, confusing raw material that is a human being, and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves. So its time to talk about it. Instead of nervously skirting the sizable EQ (emotional intelligence) portion of this IQ (in.