17 Things I like about being a journalist

By Yolanda Morales

The 17 things occurred to me because I was reading a book by Nora Ephron called: I don't remember anything, and in one of her texts she talks about 25 things with which people have a disconcerting capacity to surprise themselves. For me, this job, this work, makes me be surprised every day and sometimes it fills me with anguish, and other times with emotion. 

1. Journalists are not judges 
2. Journalists sometimes (yes) tell the wrong stories
3. Freedom of the press is only for your mind
4. Every day Tijuana is the protagonist of its own story of death or life.
5. Journalists accompany and are companions
6. Journalists have vices with words and in life
7. Sometimes the best part of being a journalist is doing interviews.
8. Sometimes the worst part of being a journalist is doing interviews.
9. Almost all of us journalists are happy in this profession. 
10. Through journalism we can experience all the lives that would not be possible in a single one.
11. Journalists do not know everything
12. Journalists sometimes know everything 
13. When we don't want to go to a place we can say: I have a note, as an excuse.
14. Journalists sometimes have a magic ball 
15. Journalists are not artists
16. Sometimes you have partners who take pictures of you, free of charge.
17. Journalists should be good people

To be a journalist is, therefore, to embrace the contradictions of our profession. We live between doubt and certainty, between distance and closeness. We are witnesses, but also narrators of stories that sometimes feel like our own. We face the vertigo of being wrong and the wonder of discovery. Perhaps that is the essence of this vocation: we are not content to see the world from the outside; we need to immerse ourselves in it, understand it and, if possible, seek to change it. Because being a journalist is not just a job, it is a way of being in the world, with its challenges and its inexhaustible beauty.

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