Homework 1: Characteristics about my major

CHARACTERICTICS ABOUT MY MAJOR

I want to study journalism, because I like a lot to reading and writing about topics that are interesting to me, like gener violence, sexual childhood abused, education and feminism. 

The journalism refers to the production and distribution of reports on recent events. It includes mediums like print, television, radio, and now the most important and fast, the Internet. It is also so related with literature and it´s styles, a lot of famous writers like Gabriel García Márquez, Stephen King and Elena Poniatowska are also jorunalist and that help or helped them with their writing. 

The journalism supposed to be a way which the people of a country can be informated about all that is happening on the place where they live, also the jorunalism, here in Mexico, has to be independent from the goverment. 

There are many forms of journalism, but I am interested on three forms: data journalism, investigate journalism and photojournalism.

Data journalism is about to use the numbers to tell a story, it is usually used to support a investigation or a report, and it is interesting to me because with the numbers and the stats we can know a lot about a problem and how it is or it is not affecting the poblation of a place. 

Investigate journalism is that one that uncovers social problems, and like I said at the start, I am interested about social problems so I really would like to investigate about them 

And finally, the photojournalism is about to tell a story with images. I like the photography, I think that sometimes a picture can do more than a 1000 words. 

So, the journalism has a lot of characterictics and history, but this are the things which make me want to study it.