journalist
ISCO: 2642. Skills: 119. Essential: 20.
Essential skills
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- build contacts to maintain news flow
- consult information sources
- copyright legislation
- develop professional network
- digital journalism
- editorial standards
- evaluate writings in response to feedback
- follow ethical code of conduct of journalists
- follow the news
- grammar
- interview people
- interview techniques
- participate in editorial meetings
- spelling
- stay up to date with social media
- study topics
- use specific writing techniques
- write to a deadline
- writing techniques
Supporting skills
- adapt to changing situations
- adapt to type of media
- address problems critically
- analyse market financial trends
- analyse trends in the food and beverage industries
- apply desktop publishing techniques
- art history
- ask questions at events
- attend book fairs
- attend performances
- attend trade fairs
- audio editing software
- check correctness of information
- communicate by telephone
- corporate law
- court procedures
- create online news content
- criminal law
- critically reflect on artistic production processes
- cultural projects
- desktop publishing
- develop film
- direct photographic workers
- do historical research
- document interviews
- economics
- edit digital moving images
- edit negatives
- edit photographs
- edit recorded sound
- election law
- ensure consistency of published articles
- film studies
- financial jurisdiction
- follow directions of on-site director
- follow newspaper house style
- food hygiene rules
- food materials
- food science
- history of dance style
- ICT software specifications
- law enforcement
- liaise with celebrities
- liaise with cultural partners
- literature
- maintain an artistic portfolio
- maintain photographic equipment
- manage personal finances
- manage personal professional development
- manage writing administration
- media and information literacy
- meet deadlines
- monitor political conflicts
- multimedia systems
- musical genres
- musical instruments
- musical theory
- observe new developments in foreign countries
- perform image editing
- perform video editing
- photography
- political campaigning
- political parties
- political science
- present arguments persuasively
- present during live broadcasts
- press law
- promote one's writings
- pronunciation techniques
- proofread text
- provide context to news stories
- provide written content
- read books
- record court procedures
- record multi-track sound
- review unpublished articles
- rewrite articles
- rewrite manuscripts
- rhetoric
- select camera apertures
- select photographic equipment
- set up photographic equipment
- show diplomacy
- show intercultural awareness
- speak different languages
- sport games rules
- sport history
- sporting events
- sports competition information
- stock market
- study cultures
- tax legislation
- test photographic equipment
- types of literature genres
- use photographic equipment
- use word processing software
- watch video and motion picture production products
- write captions
- write headlines