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This. Now, this has been true in some form at every job I’ve held since high school. It’s a reality I’ve accepted. But there was so much expected of me at my news job as a bilingual meteorologist and MMJ that it exacerbated the burnout. The bar is already so much higher for us minority people. Add bilingualism into the mix and the expectations are through the roof. Bring this up in compensation talks and you’re made to feel crazy for expecting higher pay for your in-demand skill. I was tasked with translation projects all the time, which I did not mind doing since I believe everyone should have access to realible weather and news information. However, there was rarely any recognition or appreciation shown from the newsroom when I took on extra tasks and roles. It was seen as the expectation. It’s not as simple as “just turn this to Spanish.” Ask any bilingual person. By the time I left, I was anchoring and presenting weather in Spanish, MMJing and fill in weather in English, I was a social media and website manager for our Telemundo pages, I was translating website copy, writing stories in 2 languages, producing social content in 2 languages, and so on. And sometimes it was all of that in the same day. Yet my title was simply “meteorologist.” The truth is many of us are happy to do the work. I’ve never been afraid of hard work. I love that I have the ability to reach a wider audience with my Spanish. My dream was to be a bilingual meteorologist and I did that. But it’s the lack of compensation and recognition that makes it difficult to keep going down that route. It’s the false belief that you can take on the extra translation work without it adding to your workload for the day. This has to change.

🎯 Journalists, do you want to use your English vocabulary in the right way? ✅ Prefixes (and suffixes) can help you generate opposite words or words with other meaning starting from a given term. For example legal - illegal loaded - overloaded 📌 I have put together this document that can help you understand how prefixes work in English. 🗨️ Feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions or you want to master advanced English vocabulary. 💬 What's the trickiest prefix for you to use? Let me guess... Unpolite :) It's a classic, you're not alone. 💠💠💠 Hi, I’m Rory Sahatci. I help reporters, anchors and journalists maximize their English skills to conduct interviews, events, documentaries with ease and confidence. 🌏 Don't forget to join the page dedicated to you. It has the purpose of promoting more inclusivity in the international media around the world. See link in the comments. Connect Rory Sahatci Follow #auroraTVenglish #vocabulary #journalists #media

Venturing into freelance journalism is an exciting and rewarding journey. However, facing rejection after submitting a well-thought-out pitch can be disheartening. Receiving more rejections than acceptances is a reality that you have to confront. A valuable lesson I've learned from all the rejections is the ability to rework a previously rejected pitch to fit the writing style of another media outlet. You should think of your article or pitch as a recipe; it might be good one day and not so great the next, but that doesn't undermine your writing skills. Keep writing. The best journalists and writers always have drafts. So keep on writing! #solutionsjournalism

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REFLECTION: What Journalism taught me. Reflecting on my journey as an investigative broadcast journalist, I travelled the world, laughed hard, cried, and was broken. I recall when I decided to follow this path in 1997, I was naive yet very inquisitive, unaware of what life had to offer. My most intriguing stories involved my sojourn as a School Hunter, travelling to remote areas around Africa to shed light on the plight of indigent African children. These experiences taught me empathy and gratitude. One story that particularly stood out was about Charles, a 10-year-old boy out of school in the suburbs of Ghana. While his mates were learning within the four corners of a classroom, he was pickpocketing to feed his family of eleven. This story and others have helped me pursue more untold stories with more empathy and patience, spending quality time with my interviewees to allow them to feel at ease as they slowly open up about their lives. As an investigative journalist, the power of seeking knowledge and understanding is immeasurable. It is not only about speaking with authority but also being open to dissenting opinions and acknowledging what we don't know. The story belongs to the community it serves, and as journalists, it is our responsibility to listen with their best interests at heart. The true power of journalism is asking the right questions and listening to the collective knowledge of our communities. For me, I will continue to tell stories with integrity and invite communities into the conversation. What will you be doing differently as a #journalist ? #journalism #community #listening #knowledge #understanding

The Freelance Journalist Safety Principles aren't just for conflict journalists - they are relevant to all and provide a useful set of standards that can help news editors & freelancers work more safely together. Get them in your language: https://lnkd.in/egzNmH6h

The Freelance Journalist Safety Principles aren't just for conflict journalists - they are relevant to all and provide a useful set of standards that can help news editors & freelancers work more safely together. Get them in your language: https://lnkd.in/egzNmH6h

The Freelance Journalist Safety Principles aren't just for conflict journalists - they are relevant to all and provide a useful set of standards that can help news editors & freelancers work more safely together. Get them in your language: https://lnkd.in/egzNmH6h

Do journalists make the best PR professionals? That's obviously a slightly loaded question, since I spent over 15 years in journalism and half the team at O'Hear & Co are former journalists. However, I don't think it's a straight yes (or no) even if it's true that many journalists make the transition to comms with relative ease - and there is probably no substitute for actually spending years working in newsrooms if you're then tasked with crafting stories of interest to news editors. But at the same time, some of the best PRs I've worked with are not former journalists. What they have in spades is highly developed media literacy, curiosity about the world around them and an ability to find and tell great stories. If that sounds an awful lot like journalism, it's probably because it is. #Journalism #PublicRelations #TeamWork