What is the difference between Reporter and Journalist?
Reporter
Reporters fulfill their job function on the street, where the news happens. They are the direct links between public or private institutions, social workers, communities, young people, and the general public.
Their job is to go out in search of the news, to later be written or recorded. This happens in a quick stage of editing to later be carried through television channels, radio stations, social networks or the communication platform in which you work.
Your research area limit is proportional to the city, town or region where you are located. Since, when he exceeds a certain space, he goes from being a reporter and becomes a correspondent.
Journalist
They are social communicators who, through specialization, become the link between reporters with the news and the public. Their function is carried out within television studios or editorial departments where (in alliance with reporters) they search, write and spread the events on a daily basis.
The journalist specializes according to the news area in which he wishes to develop, some of them being: shows, sports, events, news, entertainment, ecology, among others.
Differences between reporter and journalist
- The reporter goes out in search of the news, chats with people and knows the institutional sources.
- The journalist is in charge of correcting and editing the information that will later go on air to be disseminated by the media.
- The reporter may not have a degree in social communication, although he or she should have investigative experience and good spelling.
- To be hired by a media outlet, a journalist must have a degree in social communication.
- The reporter is the link between the people and the media. While the journalist is the one who publishes the information that he has.