Journalism combines writing with news gathering and interpretation. While the Journalist's work obviously varies from newspaper to newspaper and for the magazine to magazine, all journalists, are as much research workers, as they are writes. They cannot write their news of features stories unless they locate it and research them first. They must be able to read in between the lines of the main source news and interpret that. A great many stories hunt the journalist, who rejects most of them. He carefully sorts and sifts those, taking only a relatively very small proportion of news, maybe, coming form an unexpected source. A successful journalist may gather news to the tune of 1000 percent but he can use them for his profession only to the extent of 3-5 percent. He must be able to see of the forecast to himself, the news of tomorrow or the day after, from the news fo today because newspapers want advance news or advance warning to give a goo. exclusive and exhaustive coverage to anything of interest. But a real 'scoop' is a very rare event AAnd bogus scoops also bring disrepute to the newspaper.
What , according to the passage, is the common characteristic of all journalists?
