Ambition
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When I used to be
asked what my ambition was, I didn’t really know what to say back, but now I
know it is this- to become a journalist.
JFS has played a huge
part in helping me develop this ambition. Being part of the Student journalist
programme has further encouraged me to work towards this goal. The student
journalists have heard talks from people in the fields of print, broadcast and
documentary style journalism. We also went on a trip to a Sky news programme,
recently set up- especially for schools in which we produced our own broadcast
news piece. Not only this, but in year 8 JFS takes part in the BBC school report programme; although I
was not fortunate enough to take part, it was really fascinating to read and
even see the work that my peers had produced, this included everything from
weather forecasts to extremely detailed articles.
Additionally, I am
developing skills that I might need to become a journalist in lots of my
lessons. For instance, in geography I have just learnt about blood diamonds and
we got the chance to write a newspaper style article on it, it was marked as an
article not as an essay. Furthermore, in history we are learning all about the
world around us and how it developed to become what it is now. Only recently we
learnt about examples of dictatorships and looked at modern examples. These
will all help me on my road to becoming a journalist.
‘Ambition’ is
described in the dictionary as “an earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power,
honour, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment.”. JFS has
helped me to decide that my desire is that I want to be a journalist. I have
the willingness to strive for this, maybe one day you will be reading an
article by the same author in a well known newspaper.
