Wednesday, February 24, 2010

The Essence of Profiling

Maintaining a good profile is crucial in being a good news writer.

When a journalist decides to do a profile on another individual, it is necessary to make sure first that all the facts are correct. If someone reads your profile, and the first sentence is wrong, your credibility as a writer has already suffered terrible damage and the reader may already put your work down, and this is a sign of failure as a journalist.

Another key part of profiling is to be unbiased. A profile is supposed to be a accurate description of an individual without any other qualities brought into question.

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