Become an Independent Journalist | Howard University
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0:00A: Become an independent journalist, learn your craft, learn your trade, however you do it. Go to school, take a lesson from journalists. I should go to school for journalism?
0:09B: Should I go to school for journalism?
0:10A: You graduated already, didn’t you graduate from something? What is your degree in?
0:14B: Moral psychology.
0:15A: Okay, so you’re pretty much a journalist already, moral psychology.
0:19B: Thanks, that’s nice credit to get.
0:21A: But so I don’t think you need to go to school for it because you’re out here practicing it. I think you just need to uphold all the tenets of being a good journalist, which is being factual, which is being honest, which is being truthful. And you seem to be doing some of that from what I can tell, having first met you on the street.
