Profiling is an important step in the process of writing a story for a journalist. A profile can be on a specific topic, event, or person. The profile can be used within the story itself to help strengthen it, or it can be used as a tool to help write the story.
At least a small profile of the person or event is important to include within the story because it gives background information so the audience will understand what is happening.
When a profile is completed before an interview it allows the journalist to ask more in-depth, prepared questions. Not only will the journalist get a good interview, they will seem more impressive because they prepared.
Profiling is not difficult because of the many media resources around us. The internet, books, newspapers, and television are all readily available for journalists and the profiling process is made easier.
The internet makes profiling even easier because people are more willing to share personal information about themselves. People are constantly writing their opinions and what they are doing for the day online. Journalists just need to search for names and topics and then they have an abundance of information.
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