ABSTRACT New beginnings are crucial to career construction. This paper explores how stories of ‘lived experience’ are used by journalists making the transition into education to narrate their own lives. It contends that personal stories can provide the journalist moving from newsroom to classroom with an authentic means to write the next chapter in a life story, since storytelling is the journalist’s ‘stock in trade’. The paper’s principal feature is 2 stories, drawn from in-depth, biographical interviews, with well-established broadcast journalists who reflect on their experiences as educators at the BBC College of Journalism. The relationship between professional and personal identity is considered and the emergent concept of ‘auto/biographical journalism’ is utilised to scrutinise the role of self within journalism as a vocation and journalism education as a career choice. Here, autobiographical journalism as catharsis, the role of epiphanies in self-stories and the confessional genre provide context. My background as a former BBC journalist and my current role as a journalism educator inform this paper: hence, it concludes with personal reflections on the ways in which, as journalists telling the stories of others, we can also draw on our own stories to shape our personae in different periods of our lives.

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汽车/传记记者和生活经历的故事

摘要 新的开始对于职业建设至关重要。本文探讨了转入教育领域的记者如何使用“生活经历”的故事来讲述自己的生活。它认为，个人故事可以为从新闻编辑室转移到教室的记者提供一种真实的方式来书写人生故事的下一章，因为讲故事是记者的“交易品”。该报的主要特点是 2 个故事，取材于深入的传记采访，采访了知名广播记者，他们回顾了他们在 BBC 新闻学院担任教育工作者的经历。考虑了职业和个人身份之间的关系，并利用“自动/传记新闻”的新兴概念来仔细审查自我在作为职业的新闻业和作为职业选择的新闻教育中的作用。在这里，作为宣泄的自传式新闻、顿悟在自我故事中的作用和忏悔类型提供了背景。我作为前 BBC 记者的背景和我目前作为新闻教育工作者的角色为本文提供了信息：因此，它以个人反思作为结尾，作为记者讲述他人故事的方式，我们也可以利用自己的故事来塑造我们生命中不同时期的人格。