The “Aha Moment” with Journalism

The hour-and-a-half long documentary, released in mid-2011, takes an inside look at The New York Times and the people who run it. It is your typical “fly-on-the-wall” documentary, which shows the newspaper and its struggle to survive in an era when, everything ends up on the internet. As Davis writes, the documentary also “showed me that although journalism is in the messed up state that it seems, the people at the core of it are passionate to grind out news that they are known for, continue to keep the world informed and continue to do what they do best.”

Much like Davis, my own aha moment was not so instant, and it was not until I began following the 2006 Canadian federal election that I figured out how to incorporate my love of writing into my future. I remember flipping through the Toronto Star, The Globe and Mail, and the National Post to get a better understanding of what was going on in the election. I became obsessed with reading about the election in the paper that it hit me all at once. The light bulb went off: I wanted to be a journalist. I wanted people to read my articles and feel just as informed as I had.