An article written about me (by me) *this is an assignment so don't judge me, I'm not narcissistic*

Matthew Antwine
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Thursday, Jan. 22, 2008


MEMPHIS--- While most of the students entering college focus on jobs in high paying professions like law and science for one student at the University of Memphis, Journalism is the only way to go.

For Matthew Antwine, 19, of Munford, journalism is a career that seems to make the most sense right now.

“People love to be informed about what is happening around them, whether it is local, state wide, nationally or internationally,” Antwine said. “And right now this world has so many history making events that we need journalists who know who to right and report. We need them as journalists to not only report these events to the people with journalist integrity but to also record these events for future generations.”

Antwine, a sophomore at the university, has recently become one of the new staff writers for the university’s paper The Daily Helmsman. The Helmsman will not be the first time that Antwine has had articles published, as he had ended an internship at his local county paper this past November.

For Antwine, the chance to be a journalist is a chance to bring a change to what he says journalism has become in this day and age.

“During this past election, I saw Saturday Night Live act more objectively in their parodies than I did with the journalists asking the candidates questions. I would have asked both candidates questions about their plans or their campaigns without being partial to one side, that is called being objective,” Antwine said.

As for the future of Journalism, Antwine is more concerned about the tactics and objectivism of journalist more than the move to online journalism. He says that as long as the integrity and objectivism are in the journalist of tomorrow the format of the way people read it won’t matter.

“Journalism is heading towards more online publications, and while that is sad it is not necessarily frightening for me,” Antwine said. “It isn’t what a journalist writes on, be it paper or on the web, it is how they write it and how they report a story that truly matters.”

Though only a sophomore Antwine says he has already noticed that his fellow journalism students carry a great sense of objectivism and journalistic integrity with them.

With graduation just two years away Antwine says that though it will be a long and hard road, he wishes one day to report on international affairs.

“Matt is the kind of person that likes to see the small things happening but he loves to see the big picture,” said his close friend Megan Brown. “He likes to inform his friends when something happens either nationally or internationally that can affect all of us.”