For the last four years, I've been set on becoming a journalist. I love everything about it. I love the writing, I love the editing, the whole process. I am specifically interested in print journalism, which is rapidly becoming obsolete. Ad revenue for all newspapers is slowly dwindling and therefore making it harder to stay afloat.

It is truly discouraging to see, time and time again, that a newspaper has made cutbacks, lessened publication, or failed altogether. For so long, print journalism was what people relied on, and as the world advances, so do media forms. Today we see all news on the internet, easily shared from person to person. It provides a vast network of people that a newspaper would never be able to reach.

With the transition to online news, a lot of advertisers have stopped selling to newspapers. This makes it harder to to stay in business, since almost 80% of revenue for newspapers comes from advertising.

Online news has also created the opportunity for fake news. Endless information is available to everyone and not all of it is true, and some don't even bother to fact check. Newspapers are dedicated to getting the truth and making sure it's confirmed and valid. It's terrifying to know that someone could make something up and it would spread like wildfire.

I have attended seminars, watched documentaries, and read newspapers that all come to the same consensus: the future of print newspapers are uncertain. Countless people could be out of jobs and forced to put their degree aside.

So as I surge forward in my life, starting to make my way towards a bachelor's in journalism, I force myself to stay positive. It is about the present, not the future. As of now, print newspapers are very much a living entity, and very important among the lot of fake news circling around. Media has been threatened time and time again by the now-President Trump's words. There's no telling what could happen under his presidency.