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What makes a good online portfolio?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:30:31 +0000

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

What skills do journalists need to work for niche sites?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 01 May 2012 10:30:31 +0000

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.

How to effectively recruit, hire for diversity in newsrooms

Joe Grimm — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:30:13 +0000

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

What are the opportunities, challenges for business & tech reporters?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 10:30:17 +0000

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

What opportunities are there at nonprofit news sites?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 04:01:12 +0000

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

How to tell when it’s time to get out of journalism

Joe Grimm — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 05:01:13 +0000

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

How to decide whether to take a buyout?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:02:10 +0000

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Larry Olmstead, vice president of organizational development at United Way Silicon Valley. He was formerly a vice president with Knight Ridder and managing editor at the Miami Herald. He also ran… Read more

What skills are digital-first newsrooms looking for?

Joe Grimm — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:01:57 +0000

Booth Newspapers and MLive.com recently consolidated under the name MLive Media Group, which launched last Thursday.

MLive Media Group and Advance Central Services Michigan now operate AnnArbor.com, MLive.com and Booth Newspapers, and are taking a digital-first approach. More than… Read more

How microgrants could help journalists be more innovative

Joe Grimm — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:01:10 +0000

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Christina Xu, a 2011 Knight News Challenge winner and chancellor of the Institute on Higher Awesome Studies, a nonprofit that promotes microgranting. Knight gave her $244,000 to experiment with… Read more

Former executive editor Glenn Proctor shares advice on how to make career changes

Joe Grimm — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 05:02:15 +0000

In this week’s career chat, we talked with Glenn Proctor, former executive editor and vice president/news of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He is now a trainer, career coach and author.

During the chat, Proctor talked about how he made the… Read more