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Today I"d like to talk about how to become a
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. Usually you have to start at the beginning. That is, you have to begin
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of some sort on a local newspaper, a
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, maybe on a small magazine -- work
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. Now there aren"t that many organizations which have large numbers of foreign correspondents so you also have to
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with that aim
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. Another way of doing it is to work abroad, and work as
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. That"s somebody who sells stories, and gets paid
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, to newspapers and magazines and so on. And hoping to
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that way, and eventually to be offered a
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.
I don"t really know
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are needed, but obviously a degree in modern languages or
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would be very useful. But, a degree in itself probably wouldn"t
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. It wouldn"t be enough to get you job. It wouldn"t
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to make an editor decide to
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. So it"s difficult to define the
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. You"re going to need
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and the ability to assimilate information
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and then produce stories which
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of the newspaper or radio or television station you
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.