Blog 13: Answer 1

1. What is answer 1 to your EQ? Be specific in your answer and write it like a thesis statement.
       One of the most important elements to becoming a successful journalist is to strive for accuracy and fairness.

2. What possible evidence do you have to support this answer?

• For example, if a journalist gains insight from a "credible source" that turns out to not be so credible, the journalists' employer/publication will be at risk of lawsuits, etc. 

• Another example as to why accuracy is essential to success in journalism is because the news are used by the public to inform themselves about current events. The public, according to The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, uses the news to make informed decisions in a democracy.

• Lastly, another example taken from The Elements of Journalism by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel, where Pulizter's Sun Magazine's motto for a number of years was, "Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy."

• The Elements of Journalism
 by Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel

• The Code of Ethics by the Society of Professional Journalists (
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp)

• Principles of Journalism by Journalism.org

3. What source(s) did you find this evidence and/or answer?

Blog 12: Service Learning

Where are you working for your service learning?
I am working at the Poly Post Newspaper, a student-run publication, at Cal Poly Pomona University.
What is your contact?
My contact at the Poly Post is Cecily Arambula, the Editor-in-Chief of the newspaper. She is the one that manages my hours and the tasks I perform while doing my service learning.
Summarize the services you have performed to complete the 10 hour requirement?
While doing service learning, I have performed various tasks. The tasks I do vary from editing copy that will go into the newspaper, typing up memos and lists for the Editor-in-Chief, editing photos, observing weekly staff meetings, and I've even learned how to edit using PhotoShop for newspaper publishing.

*Remember that your house teacher should also have the contact phone number for this person.  If they do not, you will not receive credit for this blog. We will be calling to verify.
Hours?
I have worked for 10 hours as of 01/13/2012.
My Service Learning Log

The ESLRs

Literal
1. Which aspects of the ESLRs are you focusing on?
-I'm focusing mainly on the following ESLRs: Effective User of Technology and Effective Communicator. For example, in my senior project I am required, as an aspiring journalist, to learn how to use the Internet medium to publish be it the senior blogs, in my service learning, and even by using the web and computer programs to create presentations. Another example of the Effective Communicator ESLR is when, as a journalist, I am working with the interview requirements of the senior project as well as practicing my journalistic skills and interviewing skills.
Interpretative
2. How will you do this (or how have you done this already in your senior project?)
-I have done this by going on multiple interviews, researching, and even in my science fair where I am conducting my research by emailing my survey to journalists across the United States.
Applied
3. How will this help you become better, educationally?
-These skills will help me in my educational career by acquiring and applying these skills to use technology to research more effectively, communicate better with my peers as well as my superiors, and giving me a more well-rounded sense of skills.

Blog 11: Third Interview Questions

1. In your words, what defines success in the field of journalism?
2. In your opinion, is there a correlation between experience in journalism and annual income? If so, how?
3. How important are interviewing skills to a journalists' success?
4. In your opinion, what is the most important quality a journalist?
5. How much education should a journalist have and why? (e.g. Bachelor's degree, Master's, Ph.D, etc.) 
6. How valuable is journalism school for a journalism undergraduate major?
7. What is the relationship between the field of journalism practiced and the income earned?
8. Describe a journalist. What characteristics/qualities should a "good" journalist have?
9. In your opinion, are these qualities acquired or are you just "born with it"?
10. Lastly, what is the key to success in journalism, in your opinion?
11. What are the key factors to monetary success in the field? (e.g. region, specific field, experience, awards, etc.)
12. Where do you see the future of journalism going? 
13. Are there any tips that you would give to an aspiring journalist like myself?