With this letter I hereby would like to express my motivation for the opportunity as the Features Editor for Perdeby 2015. I have been working as a features writer, at Perdeby, for the past year and I would like to explore the opportunity of working as the Features section editor. I am currently a second year general BA student and would like to do my honors in Journalism. I would have loved to complete my honors here at the University of Pretoria, but sadly the course has been discontinued and I will have to complete my honors at another university. However, I have known from a young age that this is the career I would like to pursue. In high school I was a part of the school’s newspaper as a sports and entertainment writer, and I jumped at the opportunity to write for the Perdeby in my first year of varsity. I am passionate about journalism, I am outgoing, social, creative and enthusiastic. I believe that these traits make me the right candidate for this position. …show more content…
I am up for this challenge because I live by Norah Roberts quote “If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place”. I would use the opportunity as Features editor as a learning curve to gain skills that I would use one day in the industry. As the Features editor I would want to keep the content innovative, exciting and student related. Many students have different interests and I hope that the content of the Features section will be able to cover all these interests. I believe that this is possible due to the freedom Features writers have when choosing the content they would like to write