Being a Journalist
During careers week we also welcomed Darren Burke – Senior Journalist from Doncaster Free Press to tell us all about how our literacy skills would help towards a career in journalism. We also asked Darren lots of questions about his role and what writing for a newspaper means. This is what Year 2 found out!
Darren started as a journalist by studying hard at school then going to college in Sheffield and how he reports on stories for the Doncaster area. The Free Press has been running since 1925, so nearly 100 years!
- Who started the newspaper?
Richard Crowther in 1925
- How do you know what to write about?
We follow up lots of stories from what is happening from the police and sometimes people from the community so for example like doing something great to raise money for charity.
- How is the paper made?
The journalists collate the stories then a designer lays out all the stories and pictures on a table then it goes to the printers.
- What was your very first story?
What a good question! It was a fire at Doncaster Market in 1993!
- How does a newspaper make money?
It makes money from selling newspapers and people pay for adverts to put in the paper.