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Journalism is a pool staffed by distracted lifeguards and no matter how fancy your school is your first week in a real newsroom will feel like a shove in the small of the back intofeet of water Most of us come up for air eventually but if you're like journalist and educator Colleen Steffen you may still be left feeling like all that training in inverted pyramids and uestion lists left something important out youJournalism is people managing wrestling truth and story out of the messy confusing raw material that is a human being and the messiest human involved can often be the reporter themselves So it's time to talk about it Instead of nervously skirting the sizable E emotional intelligence portion of this I intelligence intelligence enterprise Soft Skills for the New Journalist explores how it FEELS to do this strange hard amazing job and how to use those feelings to better your work and yourself.