Tips for managing your career, especially for job seekers.
While many recent changes in journalism have led to budget cuts and layoffs, others have created new opportunities — to tell stories in nontraditional ways, develop different skills, and guide the industry in promising directions.
Now more than ever, young … Read more
Resolutions are daunting — especially New Year’s resolutions. Getting more exercise, quitting smoking, reading more books — can we stick to our resolutions past January, and will these new behaviors make us better people?
Well, maybe not in all cases, … Read more
Journalism, by definition, is a stressful profession. Ask any reporter who has worked on deadline, reported on conflict or crime, or lived and worked in a war zone or disaster area.
The demanding nature of the job, coupled with issues … Read more
Chris Seper, founder and CEO of MedCity Media, recently wrote that the best way to save a newspaper is to stop acting like one. Newspaper companies, he said, need to start thinking of themselves as being in the … Read more
Most of us still remember a time when revenue was enough of an incidental byproduct of journalism that journalists could ignore it almost completely. We just did our jobs, and then — somehow — money happened.
This was the state … Read more
One of the newest jobs on the landscape is Dao Nguyen‘s positon as director of growth at BuzzFeed. As TechCrunch’s Drew Olanoff recently explained, Nguyen’s job is to “build traffic by helping readers find the content that … Read more
Shazna Nessa, a deputy managing editor at the Associated Press, joined us for this week’s career chat.
During the chat, she talked about the skills journalists need to succeed in the field and ways that they can make themselves more … Read more
I’ll let you in on a secret: most of my career thus far was built with other people’s money.
I’ve conducted research in Cuba and Oman, lived in Singapore and England, and traveled around the world — all thanks to … Read more
In her new textbook, “The Multimedia Journalist,” Jennifer George-Palilonis lays out examples of the tools, workflow and collaboration that go into today’s interactive news reports.
A distinguished professor of multimedia journalism at Ball State University, she is a … Read more
It’s fall, which means it’s time for young journalists to start getting their internship applications ready. It’s best to work on your applications sooner rather than later, and to find ways to make your application stand out from all the … Read more