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Photo by Wikipedia Entertainment Wednesday, 30 September 2020 | Annya Monica Johan Who in the world never heard of the infamous Harry Potter?  The greatest wizard in the book series of Harry Potter by a British author J.K Rowling. The exciting and thrilling adventure of Harry Potter with his best friend, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, in the coolest Witchcraft and Wizardry School Hogwarts. In his adventure, Harry Potter is accompanied by a lot of great wizards such as Hogwarts’ headmaster, Professor Dumbledore, and Hogwarts’ Keeper of Keys, Rubeus Hagrid.  Not only the male characters that important in Harry Potter’s life. There are numerous female characters present in Harry’s life throughout the journey. However, several women characters have an important influence on Harry’s development into a great wizard. Lily Potter Just by seeing the name of this female character, we must have noticed who this character was in Harry’s life. That’s right! Harry Potter’s mother. This woman was

  What is the most important element that you pay attention to when reading the news?   The newsworthy? The values? The messages? The relevance? Or maybe the importance?   According to Galtung and Ruge (1965), in their study of news values, the more clearly an event could be understood and interpreted unambiguously, the more likely it was to be selected as a news story. So, the unambiguity of the news has a great influence on a journalist. Quoted from James Curran and Jean Seaton (2003), news values allow the journalist to “translate untidy reality into neat stories with beginnings, middles, and denouements”.   For example, from these two following newspaper articles from The Jakarta Post, we will find what news values are applied in the articles.   The first article is “India virus cases cross 5 million in ‘worse than sci-fi’ pandemic”. This article applying several news values in it, such are  Bad news, Magnitude, Relevance , and  Follow-up . By seeing the title of th

 ‘I think to be a journalist is one of a great option for my future.’ That sentence is what's on my mind right now. Now I realize that my knowledge about journalism is poor. I’m interested in creative writing, but I never put my eyes on journalism for once before. After watching ‘I Wanna Be a Journalist: A Day in The Life of A Journalist’ by Student Edge, I realize that Journalism is not only about government and political news like what I knew before. Journalism itself is actually a pretty broad field, it covers freelancers, broadcasters, online, fashion, music, education, health, political journalist, and more. Being a journalist allows you to explore the world to write. A journalist does not work only behind the desk in an office, they see and explore their surroundings, and pour it in a writing. That fact is actually making my heart flutter slightly, imagining work like that in the future. To find out the way to be a journalist, and be a good journalist, we have to have the abi

 Welcome to cwjournalism! Hello! My name is Annya Monica Johan, and you can call me Annya to be more comfortable. This is my very first blog, my virtual world, and I will share a lot of things about myself and my surrounding. I’m an English Literature student, majoring in Creative Writing, so I will use this blog to share and talk about Creative Writing, especially Journalism. Through this blog, I will try to express myself about my interest or anything that impressed me, with writing. This blog is not a media to only share about me. I also need friends that can share a lot of great things with me through this blog. It will be way more interesting if we can share things, comments, and also feedbacks here. I will always receive with open arms 😊 Thank you for being here. See you in the next post.