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[dancesafari]

Ballroom Dancer - I’m Not Cut Out to Be One. (Or, Am I?)

Ballroom Dancer – I’m Not Cut Out to Be One. (Or, Am I?)

Because watching good dancing is so moving, I feel like you can generally forgive people for believing you have to be special in order to learn it. To be sure, there are many incorrect assumptions about becoming a ballroom dancer. Indeed, some think you need to have specific qualities to take lessons and become a ballroom dancer.  As a matter of fact, they are sure you have to be: …a natural…

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[masendaforever]

It wasn’t until half-way through my journalism degree that I realized I wasn’t going to be a traditional reporter. I wasn’t even going to be a multimedia reporter. I was going to be a programmer/journalist. Putting a slash in your title makes you more important.” - Megan Taylor, How Computer-Assisted Reporters Evolved into Programmer/Journalists

I’m writing a paper for Computer-Assisted Reporting this afternoon and came across this article. The end was my favorite part.

“Putting a slash in your title makes you more important.” I’ve always loved that concept - Nora Ephron taught it to me. It’s not enough to be an excellent researcher or a high quality journalist. Whether you want to be a novelist/journalist, photographer/journalist, pop-star turned journalist - you’ve got to be multidimensional. You just have to. #journalism #writers #doublethreat #triplethreat