Overview
Bloggers, Critics, Sports and Other Writers (not covered elsewhere) includes jobs like Blogger, Critic, Editorial Assistant, and Photo Journalist.
Day-to-day
- determines written advertising approaches by consulting clients and management, and studying products to establish principal selling features
- writes advertisements for press, radio, television, cinema screens, billboards, catalogues and shop displays
- makes decisions about the specific content of publications in conjunction with other senior editors and in accordance with editorial policies and guidelines
- reviews copy for publication, to ensure conformity with accepted rules of grammar, style, format and story coherence as well as the accuracy, legality and ethics of content
- collects and analyses facts about newsworthy events from interviews, printed matter, investigations and observations
- writes news reports, commentaries, articles and feature stories for newspapers, magazines, journals, television and radio on topics of public interest
- researches and writes technical, information-based material and documentation for manuals, text books, handbooks and multimedia products
- critically discusses daily news topics in the editorial columns of newspapers and reviewing books, films and plays.
Considerations
- Requires driving
- Working outdoors
- Stressful
To become a Blogger, Critic, Sport and Other Writer (not covered elsewhere)
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You can work as a Blogger, Critic, Sports or Other Writer (not covered elsewhere) without formal qualifications, however, they may be useful. University and Vocational Education and Training (VET) are both common study pathways.
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