A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.
As a journalist, it is so easy to get hardened when you see so many stories that are disturbing. Sometimes it's just your survival mechanism that makes you hardened to some of it.
I've learned in my years as a journalist that when a politician says 'That's ridiculous' you're probably on the right track
Journalists hold themselves apart, and above, the common person. They have rules designed to ensure their objectivity and impartiality.
I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
I got here when I was 12, I found out I was undocumented when I was 16, I became a journalist when I was 17, and all I ever did was write other stories to run away from myself.
What else has a journalist to do these days, after all, but report life's miseries?
Best qualification for an aspiring journalist is curiosity.