Citizen Reporting: Do You Have What It Takes?

To be a citizen reporter you have to be driven. You have to be willing to go and search out the best stories in your area before they are captured by the mainstream media.  The reason I think citizen reporters are better than mainstream is because mainstream media is somewhat corporate. A citizen reporter has more freedoms, the problem of the mainstream media is they’re only allowed to cover the stories they are assigned.

I have found that freelance reporting is less confining as far as subject matter.  At the above description in this article I asked if you have what it takes to be a citizen reporter if you like discussing news that is more focused on the daily happenings of daily life, rather than just confined to what is politically correct then you have what is necessary to become a citizen reporter.

What I think is awesome about citizen reporting is that you are your own boss, you write about what you want when you want to.  It’s also a plus that you don’t have to get up at 5:30 every day to go to work.  My dad used to say find a job that you love doing and you’ll never work a day in your life.  Now many of you know my dad is military.  From my perspective I could not be in the military, but my dad seems to like it even though he is now looking forward to retirement.

I will always be a writer, I asked one time if a journalist ever really retires and somebody responded that a journalist only retires when he is good and ready.  I can be 90 years old and still writing if I want, journalism is a vocation of longevity that if your heart is in it you will never really stop.