Tips for managing your career, especially for job seekers.
In this week’s career chat, Marc Samson talked about Pressfolios, a new Web application that helps journalists build and manage an online portfolio of their news stories.
Samson, who is Pressfolio’s co-founder, talked about how journalists can benefit… Read more
Like many college students and recent graduates, 22-year-old Ashleigh Atwell started her first internship this month. Also like many of them, Atwell won’t be getting paid for the work she performs.
She will work four days a week, four to… Read more
Believe it or not, there are ways to make money in journalism. One of them is by crossing from the editorial to the business side of the industry.
While some journalists have launched their own news sites, others have found… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Everett J. Mitchell II, managing editor of The Medicare NewsGroup. The site features original and curated content that’s aimed at journalists covering Medicare.
Recently, Beijing-based journalist Debra Bruno wrote a column describing how the search for diverse job candidates turned her into “a Facebook stalker” when she worked at Roll Call. When she ran the site’s internship program, she was told… Read more
Dear Young Journalist,
I’m writing this letter to you because I get the feeling you might need some encouragement right now. (Lord knows, we all need some encouragement right now, but let me focus on you for the moment.)… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Wade Roush, chief correspondent at Xconomy, and editor of Xconomy San Francisco. Xconomy, a site that covers tech trends and companies, has reporters in Boston, Detroit, New York, San Diego,… Read more
One recent afternoon, I walked from my hotel through the historic Art Deco district of South Beach, following the curve of the ocean to South Pointe Park. My parents had chosen Miami as a place for a family reunion, and… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked with Lila LaHood, director of operations and development at SF Public Press, an independent nonprofit that focuses on in-depth news. LaHood has a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School… Read more
In this week’s career chat, we talked about how to decide whether it’s time to get out of journalism. This is not a simple yes-or-no question, so we addressed its complexities and what they mean. We also asked chat participants… Read more