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Week 2 - Music Journalism Techniques - Essential Skills


What kind of skills do you think a music journalist needs? Do you have them?

Firstly lets find out who you are. Do the personality test HERE

Then, with your four-letter rating - go HERE to read your own personality profile. If you've done the test properly it should be accurate - don't be annoyed by the suggested jobs!

Also if you're curious, you could go HERE or HERE to  find out  + what famous people you share a personality profile with. Don't be upset if you share a personality profile with Hitler.

Finally, you're going to write me a blogpost about you, music journalism and what skills you'll need to develop in the following way. The notes you've made during my waffling will be useful.

1. Open up a new blogpost. Give it the title 'Music Journalism Techniques Week 2: Essential Skills'

2. Insert the heading 'The Skills I Have'

2. Tell me what personality type you have. What does this mean in terms of the skills/attributes you have? You can bullet point those you think are important - make sure you give me both the positive AND negative aspects of the profile.

3. Can you add notes to those positives & negatives - which might be useful in music journalism? Which might hamper you?

4. Insert a heading 'The Skills I Need'

4. Open up a subheading Hard Skills and then tell me in your own words why each of the following would be important for anyone involved in music journalism. Can you also tell me for each one what KIND of writing each skill would be useful for (reviews/news stories/interviews or features) and why?

research skills
accuracy 
subject-knowledge
organisation 
communication skills 

5. Open up another subheading Soft Skills  and then tell me in your own words why each of the following would be important for anyone involved in music journalism. Can you also tell me for each one what KIND of writing each skill would be useful for (reviews/news stories/interviews or features) and why?

a sense of humour
a sense of seriousness
a chip on your shoulder/a sense of purpose
obsession
flexibility 

5. Publish your post making sure to label it 'Music Journalism Techniques' and 'Skillset'.

Useful Links
The following may help you flesh out some aspects of your first blogpost. If you use them get used to quoting from them and citing them at the bottom of your post.
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