The one lesson I have been unable to wrap my head around after listening to these professional journalists and experts is wanting change and being objective. The division between opinion and news. Most people here call investigative journalism "news with a purpose" or "advocacy journalism."
In news when there is a community issue the way I've covered it is by writing a "he said, she said" piece. This is when I show one persons opinion of an issue and then the others without injecting my own opinions or suggestions. This seems to be the big no-no of this camp. All the journalists are saying of my, and most reporter's methods, "What's the point of that?" because it doesn't make much of a difference.
I dont understand how to be an 'objective' news source with opinion or motive. It is against EVERYTHING I learn in journalism classes.
Before I go back to my news editor desk at The Maine Campus I need to figure this out.
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