A music journalist has to have
solid skills in both reporting and writing as well as being knowledgeable in
various part of the music industry. They are expected to keep their articles
fair and unbiased.
Self-employed music journalists
must actively look for new commissions along with writing for current clients.
Music Journalists that work for a
publication could mean getting story ideas to an editor and having them
commissioned as well as meeting deadlines. The daily task of a music journalist
involve: sorting through press releases, interviewing contributors, attending
press conferences or album launches and the obvious writing articles.
However as part of their jobs some
journalists tend to write about artists personal life that the individual may
not want. In that case it goes against the Human Rights Act: Article 8, which
states that everyone has a right to private and family life. It might be hard
for a journalists working in the industry to give a full in sight for the fans
of what their bands like or their solo artist but this would affect their work
for they would have to try to avoid intruding on their privacy while writing a
full article about them.
Humans Rights Act Article 10 which
says that people have the right to freedom of speech might contradict that
however reader a full version of the article it also says that you have the
right to freedom of speech as long as it doesn’t offend another right of
someone else. Which means that a journalist’s article has to be carefully
written to not offend anyone or their rights.
Once the magazine is published the
copyright law, design and parents Act 1988 applies which means that their work
is corrected but it also means if any of the articles have been a copy someone
else’s work the journalists and the magazine company can be subjected the law
court where the would be prosecuted for it. This would mean that huge profit
loss for the company and it would cost the journalists their job.
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