International Journalism

Journalism is taught at the college level in all countries. That statement can be made as factual. However, there are journalists in all countries who may have become journalists without that level of education. The believe that only college educated writers can work for newspapers may hold validity. But there are writers who work for international news agencies whose job is to get the story. The write-up can be relegated to a reporter whose literary skills have been trained at the college level. The issue of using college trained journalists is not simply because we all need to follow the format of readability and if spoken as a radio, or television press release, understandable language.

The issue is also one of mental capabilities in human understanding of rights, limitations, guarantees, and intuitive perception. These advanced thought processes are usually delegated to the level of the college educated journalist. Groups like the International Center for Journalists whose newsletter can also be read online offer insight into the world of journalists from a political and professional viewpoint. Their mission to promote the interests of a free, unbanned, and aggressive media usually meets the standards of college Journalism courses. Knowledgeable international journalists do have contacts with each other and as in all fields depend on their networking partners for insider information, and truth or propaganda mill validity of international press releases made by international press agencies. Centers for advances in international journalism are growing more and more with the world shrinking due in great measure to the indomitable reporting of international reporters and their fearless international news agencies who are willing to face the possible censorship of their government in an effort to let the world know what is happening in their part of it.